History & The Arts
Robert Owen and New Lanark
...working-class education as a means of social control and improved efficiency. [The monitorial system in action, Interior of the Central School of the British and Foreign School Society, London, from Paul Monroe, A Cyclopedia of Education, New York, Macmillan, 1913.] Figure 6a: ‘The monitorial system in action’, Interior of the Central School of the British and Foreign...