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The Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold (1822-88) argued passionately for the importance of culture in education. In Culture and Anarchy (1869), he attacked the upper-class aristocrats for being philistine, ignorant and unappreciative of high art and culture – in short, barbarians. Despite their honourable traditions, derived from years of good breeding, and their titles, derived from owning property for centuries, Arnold saw them as ill-mannered and unintelligent.
