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Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, 1861-1943.

British historian and education reformer.

M.E. Sadler (not to be confused with his ancestor, Michael T. Sadler) was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford.  He came under the spell of the Oxford historian Arnold Toynbee and the Victorian critic John Ruskin. He became president of the Oxford Student Union and involved in the extension lecture system.   He served as steward of Christ Church from 1886 until 1895. Around that time, Sadler got involved with the Royal Commission on Secondary Education and, in 1895, Sadler joined the government's Board of Education and became the director of its research bureau until 1903.  After a spell overseeing the University of Leeds, Sadler returned to Oxford in 1923 to serve as master of University College.

Although not really an economist, M.E. Sadler was nonetheless influential on setting the intellectual tone at Oxford  and in reforming the British educational system.

 

  

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Major Works of M.E. Sadler

  • Continuation Schools in England and Elsewhere: their place in the educational system of an industrial and commercial state. 1907 [bk]
  • Editor, Moral Instruction and Training in Schools: Report of an international inquiry, 1908,  v.1, v.2.

 
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