Crossroads in Education: Religion and State
William Edward Forster and William Francis Cowper-Temple were foremost in the nineteenth century political debate that led to the Education Act of 1870, widely perceived as a momentous legislative benchmark for primary schooling in England and Wales. Both men were British Liberal politicians and statesmen. The former is chronicled for being known as a practical philanthropist committed to universal education while the latter is said to have been socially aware and concerned with religious tolerance, animal welfare and environmental…
