Thomas Arnold quotes
Thomas Arnold was an English educator and historian, best remembered as the headmaster of Rugby School. His educational reforms at Rugby greatly influenced the development of the British public school system. He became a leading figure in 19th-century educational thought and Christian moral teaching. Here are 10 of his quotes:
My highest ambition, and what I hope to do as far as I can, is to make my history the very reverse of Gibbon in this respect,-that whereas the whole spirit of his work, from its low morality, is hostile to religion, without speaking directly against it, so my greatest desire would be, in my History, by its high morals and its general tone, to be of use to the cause, without actually bringing it forward.
Thomas Arnold
I do not often venture to talk to you about public affairs, but surely you will agree with me in deprecating this war with China, which really seems to me so wicked as to be a national sin of the greatest possible magnitude, and it distresses me very deeply. Cannot any thing be done by petition or otherwise to awaken men's minds to the dreadful guilt we are incurring? I really do not remember, in any history, of a war undertaken with such combined injustice and baseness. Ordinary wars of conquest are to me far less wicked, than to go to war in order to maintain smuggling, and that smuggling consisting in the introduction of a demoralizing drug, which the government of China wishes to keep out, and which we, for the lucre of gain, want to introduce by force; and in this quarrel are going to burn and slay in the pride of our supposed superiority.
Thomas Arnold
Thomas Arnold
Occupation: English Educator
Born: June 13, 1795
Died: June 12, 1842
Quotes count: 10
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