Benthamite reformers saw schooling as a tool for colonial rule

Evidence

‘The schoolmaster is abroad’ was the famous phrase of the Benthamite reformer Lord Brougham, whose projects ‘for the diffusion of useful knowledge’ I have referred to in earlier chapters. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 938

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the origin of the phrase ‘the schoolmaster is abroad’ as Benthamite educational reform rhetoric.
• XREF: connects to: Missionary universities funded by mining fortunes were tools of colonial civilising missions. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 135; The child-adult analogy framed colonial rule as pedagogical through the 1940s. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 244