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Google and access to the world's intellectual heritage
I was recently researching the educational views of Vicesimus Knox (1752-1821), headmaster of Tonbridge School, Kent, for thirty-four years. My...
Contemporary Review, 06/01/05 by Brendan Rapple · More from publication -
Standardised testing in American schools: lessons from Matthew Arnold's Britain
IN the US most states and school districts mandate testing programmes in order to assess pupils' academic attainment at both the primary and...
Contemporary Review, 10/01/04 by Brendan Rapple · More from publication -
The modernization of Ireland: gains and losses
FREQUENTLY termed the 'Celtic Tiger' for its flourishing economy, Ireland's growth has been spectacular over the past decade and so swift and...
Contemporary Review, 10/01/02 by Brendan A. Rapple · More from publication -
Matthew Arnold and the role of the State - Critical Essay
MATTHEW Arnold, one of the Victorian age's great poets, education-alists, literary, political, social, and religious critics, passionately believed...
Contemporary Review, 03/01/02 by Brendan A. Rapple · More from publication -
Ideology and history: William Mitford's History of Greece (1784-1810)
THE STUDY OF GREEK HISTORY IN ENGLAND AT THE CLOSE OF THE 18TH CENTURY By the end of the eighteenth century the growing regard for the wider...
Papers on Language and Literature, 10/01/01 by Rapple, Brendan A · More from publication -
James Russell Lowell And England
IN his later years James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) was considered America's major man of letters of the age. However, posterity has been less kind...
Contemporary Review, 07/01/00 by Brendan Rapple · More from publication -
Frederic William Farrar and his novels for schoolboys
Author Frederic William Farrar wrote novels for schoolboys during the Victorian era. His most famous work, 'Eric, or, Little by Little: A Tale of...
Contemporary Review, 09/01/98 by Brendan A. Rapple · More from publication -
The librarian as teacher in the networked environment.
Many traditional conceptions of libraries and librarianship have little relevance today because of the proliferation of electronic technology....
College Teaching, 06/22/97 by Rapple, Brendan A. · More from publication -
Coping with catalogues: Thomas Carlyle in the British Museum
The elitist Thomas Carlyle commented on British Museum's inconveniencies and requested for its cataloguing to improve book searches. The cataloguer...
Contemporary Review, 12/01/96 by Brendan A. Rapple · More from publication -
A Tory history of ancient Greece
William Mitford's 'History of Greece' is a political rendering of ancient Greek history and is blatantly anti-democratic. Mitford abhorred the idea...
Contemporary Review, 02/01/95 by Brendan A. Rapple · More from publication
