Volume 45, Number 13 · August 13, 1998
The Good, the Bad & the Bourgeois
By Gordon A. Craig
Thinking With History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism
by Carl E. Schorske
Princeton University Press, 240 pp., $24.95
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
by Peter Gay
W.W. Norton, 324 pp., $29.95
My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
by Peter Gay
Yale University Press, 240 pp., $22.50
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the curriculum of Rugby School in England was dominated, as was true of other public schools, by instruction in Greek and Latin. In addition, however, all students from the first to the sixth grade read history, both ancient and modern, which was interlarded with generous portions of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Livy. Dr. Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby, once gave the rationale for this by saying, 'The history of Greece and Rome is not an idle inquiry about remote ages and forgotten institutions but a living picture of things present, fitted not so much for the curiosity of the scholar, as for the instruction of the statesman and citizen.'[1]
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