...judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; and to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make...equality. The great men of culture are those who have a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the...

...new conception of culture . . . seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thoughi and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweemess and lighi . . . This is the social idea and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality....

...judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has Ix-en thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make...where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely,—nourished, and not bound by them. This is the social idea; and the men of culture are the...

...devotion to sweetness and light: "It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make...where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely."7 Culture was thus, for Arnold, a "social idea": "The men of culture are the true apostles...

...of inferior classes, but to do away with classes altogether: "to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make...all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light — This is the social idea; and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality - . - those who...

...accessible to all the best thought and knowledge available in the world. This, he believed, would help 'to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light' (p. 112). As an inspector of schools, Matthew Arnold recommended that pupil teachers in elementary...

...level of inferior classes" but instead to "do away with classes, to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make...itself, freely — nourished and not bound by them" (1949a, 499). That Arnold's ideals were so profoundly influential on American life — shaping liberal...

...statement indicates: [Culture] seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make...itself, freely, - nourished, and not bound by them. Since culture is not primarily intellectual but involves 'all sides of our humanity,' he distinguishes...

...and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been known and thought in the world current everywhere; to make all men live...the social idea, and the men of culture are the true aposdes of equality. The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making...

...1869, he asserted that culture seeks: 'to make the best that has been thought and known in the world everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere...them itself, freely nourished and not bound by them' (Arnold, 1963, p. 70). Thus, culture was defined as the pinnacle of human thought and achievement and...