- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introductory Note
- 1 ‘The God of the hills’
- 2 ‘Destructive of the authority of divine revelation’
- 3 ‘The ground on which Rational Christianity may firmly take its stand’
- 4 ‘An inspired communication from the Deity … Or … Nothing’
- 5 ‘The seal and servant of Christianity’
- 6 ‘An easy good-natured God’
- 7 ‘The hateful mystery’
- 8 ‘The sceptical tendencies of modern times’
- 9 ‘The heresies of the Baptist Union’
- 10 A ‘conspiracy to undermine our holy faith’
- 1 Church Membership and Chapel Attendance
- 2 ‘Conversion is not necessary to regeneration’
- 3 Nonconformity’s Shrinking Consituency
- 4 ‘Influential families … lost to nonconformity’
- 5 The Failure of Success
- 6 The ‘most spiritually destitute and degraded’
- 7 ‘Diversity of opinion … no bar to Christian communion’
- 8 ‘We must not leave Satan … to provide the recreations of life’
- 9 The ‘social and intellectual well-being of our members’
- 10 ‘A liberal education’
- 11 ‘Winning souls’ or ‘unlimited speculation’?
- 12 Frugality and Overwork
- 13 ‘The future rests with the Free Churches’
- 1 ‘The largest and widest Church ever established’
- 2 ‘Once bit, twice shy’
- 3 ‘A torrent of gin and beer’
- 4 ‘The right of the people to judge for themselves’
- 5 ‘A mutual benefit association’
- 6 Making ‘men moral by act of parliament’
- 7 ‘To reconstruct the existing organization of society’
- 8 ‘A most astonishing opening, furnished by the providence of God’
- 9 ‘The thunder of British guns’
- 10 ‘The descendants of men like Oliver Cromwell’
- Appendix
- Index
‘The descendants of men like Oliver Cromwell’
‘The descendants of men like Oliver Cromwell’
The Balfour Education Act and the Liberal Landslide
- Chapter:
- (p.350) 10 ‘The descendants of men like Oliver Cromwell’
- Source:
- The Dissenters Volume III
- Author(s):
Michael R. Watts
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter discusses the issues surrounding the Education Act of 1902. The bill, designed to replace Forster's Education Act of 1870, was introduced by Arthur Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, later prime minister, into the House of Commons on 24 March 1902. It received the royal assent on 18 December and made possible the rational reorganization of England's educational system by placing primary, secondary, and technical schools under the same authorities, thus paving the way for a massive expansion of secondary education. However, the administrative and educational merits of the Act were obscured by the decision to give rate aid to denominational schools. The scheme, which aroused the fury of Nonconformists, played a key role in the overwhelming victory of the Liberals in the 1906 elections.
Keywords: Education Bill, education policy, Arthur Balfour, secondary education, educational system, rate aid, denominational schools
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introductory Note
- 1 ‘The God of the hills’
- 2 ‘Destructive of the authority of divine revelation’
- 3 ‘The ground on which Rational Christianity may firmly take its stand’
- 4 ‘An inspired communication from the Deity … Or … Nothing’
- 5 ‘The seal and servant of Christianity’
- 6 ‘An easy good-natured God’
- 7 ‘The hateful mystery’
- 8 ‘The sceptical tendencies of modern times’
- 9 ‘The heresies of the Baptist Union’
- 10 A ‘conspiracy to undermine our holy faith’
- 1 Church Membership and Chapel Attendance
- 2 ‘Conversion is not necessary to regeneration’
- 3 Nonconformity’s Shrinking Consituency
- 4 ‘Influential families … lost to nonconformity’
- 5 The Failure of Success
- 6 The ‘most spiritually destitute and degraded’
- 7 ‘Diversity of opinion … no bar to Christian communion’
- 8 ‘We must not leave Satan … to provide the recreations of life’
- 9 The ‘social and intellectual well-being of our members’
- 10 ‘A liberal education’
- 11 ‘Winning souls’ or ‘unlimited speculation’?
- 12 Frugality and Overwork
- 13 ‘The future rests with the Free Churches’
- 1 ‘The largest and widest Church ever established’
- 2 ‘Once bit, twice shy’
- 3 ‘A torrent of gin and beer’
- 4 ‘The right of the people to judge for themselves’
- 5 ‘A mutual benefit association’
- 6 Making ‘men moral by act of parliament’
- 7 ‘To reconstruct the existing organization of society’
- 8 ‘A most astonishing opening, furnished by the providence of God’
- 9 ‘The thunder of British guns’
- 10 ‘The descendants of men like Oliver Cromwell’
- Appendix
- Index
