Mike Smith (8)

[...] argued that with the rise of industrialism in the nineteenth century governments found themselves involved in an economic competition with other countries which required a trained industrial worker. It was because of this economic need and not a general desire to reform society that eduction developed so rapidly. [...] wrote that governments wanted schools 'not because they hope for the renovation of society through education, but because they need individuals, workmen, perfect show more instruments of labour to make their industrial enterprises and the capital employed in them profitable'. show less