John Ruskin's Politics and Natural Law by Graham A. MacDonald

Author:Graham A. MacDonald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

While the range of increased educational opportunity was held to be significant, there would remain a need to undertake a certain amount of servile work. It should not even be above the ruling classes to dirty their hands on occasion. In 1868, he asked: ‘If any man will not work, neither should he eat. Does this law apply to all classes of Society?’47

Time and Tide explored other possibilities of economic organization and quality control. By means of the ‘trade warrant’, working-class guilds could become the guardians of quality standards and honest trade practices. He described a related plan for universal education, in keeping with ideas set out in Mulnera Pulveris, a plan that included education for education’s sake and not merely ‘for getting on’.48 Larger forms of state-supported education should be trans-class and aimed at sorting out all talents. In his Inaugural Lecture at Oxford in 1870, he spoke of his hope for ‘an ideal of national life’ in which the employments of Englishmen, ‘though each shall be distinct, none shall be unhappy or ignoble’. His call was to a time when the more formal training of all those distinct classes ‘will not be by universities of general knowledge, but by distinct schools’ . This included schools for agriculture, forestry, business, management and the merchant marine.49

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