The ruling class stripped Arnold’s curriculum of intellect and kept only organized games

Evidence

Arnold believed in religion and he believed in character. Scarcely less powerful in his conceptions was the role of the intellect… . The English ruling classes accepted Arnold’s aims and accepted also his methods in general. But with an unerring instinct they separated from it the cultivation of the intellect and substituted for it organized games, with cricket at the heart of the curriculum. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1255