
Matthew Arnold, Michael Faraday, and Michael Gove
To those who have managed to keep up with the astounding pace of policy changes flowing from the Department for Education in recent months, it will come as no surprise to see Secretary of State Michael Gove quoting Matthew Arnold in the introduction to his new National Curriculum. The draft curriculum, which was released for consultation last week, begins with this as the first of two Aims: The National Curriculum provides pupils with an introduction to the core knowledge