The low utilitarian argument in matter of education, for giving it what is termed a practical direction, is so plausible that I think we may on the whole be thankful that the instincts of the country have resisted what in argument it has been ill able to confute.
Morley reflects on the importance of resisting purely utilitarian approaches to education.
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