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An Examination of Some Forces Affecting English Educational Policies in India: 1780–1850

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Nancy L. Adams  and
Dennis M. Adams
Nancy L. Adams
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin
Dennis M. Adams
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin
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In England during the last thirty or forty years of the eighteenth century, a body of political theory was gradually developed in support of government action in the field of education. With the realization of the social consequences involved in the changes taking place in industrial life came a recognition of the obligations of the state to provide for the education of its citizens. Many political and religious leaders expressed themselves on the advantages of education, indicating that the improvement of the mind would bring men closer to the goals of perfection in which these leaders believed: continued progress, moral purity, stable government, and economy.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Summer 1971 , pp. 157 - 173
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Copyright © 1971 History of Education Quarterly 

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