[T] he notion of ‘education’ as characterizing the all round development of a person morally, intellectually and spiritually only emerged in the nineteenth century… though previously to the nineteenth century there had been the ideal of the cultivated person… the term ‘educated men’ was not the usual one or drawing attention to this ideal. Nowadays…the concept of an educated man as an ideal has very much taken root…[But] for us education is no longer compatible with any narrowly conceived end.
Hirst and Peters,1970,page24)