1. Matthew Arnold

2. Arnold
Matthew followed his father as an educator and religious reformer without entering either of his father’s professions
He occupied his time with issues affecting public education

3. Arnold
Purpose of education: Build an appetite for knowledge and teach the means for gaining it
Society: Needs values and order

4. Arnold
After 1867, the year of the Second Reform Bill, Arnold turned from writing poetry to prose

5. Arnold
He advocated a humanism based on “the best that has been said and thought in the world”
The goal: subjection of man’s lower nature to his higher

6. Arnold His religion: “culture” He believed in: Classicism
Rational theology
Public education

7. Arnold He was a “Victorian secular humanist”
Christianity is noble (not Truth)
The Bible: a great literary book
Christ’s teachings: symbolic
Believed in human perfectibility