Michael Sadler (educationist)
Michael Ernest Sadler | |
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Born | Barnsley, England | 3 July 1861
Died | 14 October 1943 Oxford, England | (aged 82)
Occupation | Writer |
Subject | Education |
Spouse | |
Children | Michael Sadleir |
Sir Michael Ernest Sadler
Early life and education
Michael Ernest Sadler, born into a radical home in 1861 at Barnsley in the industrial north of England, died in Oxford in 1943.[3]
His early youth was coloured by the fact that one of his forebears, Michael Thomas Sadler, was among the pioneers of the Factory Acts. His early memories were full of associations with leaders of the working-class movement in the north of England. Remembering these pioneers, Sadler recorded: "I can see how much religion deepened their insight and steadied their judgement, and saved them from coarse materialism in their judgement of economic values. This common heritage was a bond of social union. A social tradition is the matrix of education."[4]
Sadler's schooling was typical of his times. It gave him a diverse background, which was reflected throughout his life in his interpretation of the process and content of education. When he was 10 years old, he was sent to a private boarding school at Winchester, where the atmosphere was markedly conservative. Sadler recalls:
Think of the effect on my mind of being swung from the Radical West Riding... where I never heard the Conservative point of view properly put, to where I was thrown into an entirely new atmosphere in which the old Conservative and Anglican traditions were still strong.[4]
From this preparatory school he moved to
He went to
Nominally these lectures of Ruskin's were upon Art. Really they dealt with the economic and spiritual problems of English national life. He believed, and he made us believe, that every lasting influence in an educational system requires an economic structure of society in harmony with its ethical ideal.[4]
That belief persisted to the end of Sadler's life and is recurrent in his many analyses of foreign systems of education.
Career
In 1885, he was elected secretary of Oxford's Extensions Lectures Sub-Committee, providing outreach lectures. He was a "student" (the equivalent of a
He became
Leeds Arts Club
Whilst in Leeds, Sadler became president of the avant-garde
Using his personal links with
With
The Sadler Commission
In 1917 to 1919, Sadler led the "Sadler Commission" which looked at the state of Indian Education.[2]
Towards the end of the
Before the publication of the
And in India you stand on the verge of the most hazardous and inevitable of adventures—the planning of primary education for the unlettered millions of a hundred various races. I doubt whether the European model will fit Indian conditions. If you want social dynamite, modern elementary education of the customary kind will give it to you. It is the agency that will put the masses in motion. But to what end or issue no one can foretell.[4]
Honours
Sadler received the
In 1919, Sadler was appointed a
Later life
From 1923 to 1934, Sadler served as
Personal life
Sadler married Mary Ann Harvey Sadler, "a wealthy Yorkshire heiress", in 1885.[13][14] Mary, born in 1852, was the daughter of a linen manufacturer with a warehouse in Barnsley.[15] She was his hostess at their house in Headingley, Leeds, called Buckingham House, where Sadler's Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings were displayed in a picture gallery, receiving many cultural figures like Roger Fry and emerging artists like Henry Moore and Jacob Kramer.[16] Mary died in 1931[17] and left a legacy to the Oxford Preservation Trust.[14] Their only child was Michael Sadleir (1888–1957), a British publisher, novelist, book collector and bibliographer.
In 1934 Sadler married Eva Margaret Gilpin (1868-1940), headmistress of Hall School, Weybridge, Surrey,[18] who had been the governess of his son, Michael Sadleir.[19]
Gilpin retired from the school leaving it to her niece. The two of them spent five years touring and enjoying retirement.[17]
See also
Sources
- The text here calls freely on the text published by UNESCO below, which "may be reproduced free of charge as long as acknowledgement is made of the source."[3]
References
- ^ "Sadler, Sir Michael Ernest", The Concise Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1992.
- ^ a b Sir Michael Ernest Sadler at Britannica.com J. H. Higginson accessed July 2007
- ^ a b c A detailed biography from UNESCO accessed July 2007.
- ^ a b c d e J. H. Higginson, ed., Selections from Michael Sadler, p. 11. Liverpool: Dejall & Meyorre, 1980. The article In the Days of My Youth is reproduced in full.
- ^ Visit to a School with a New Work (1904). Cited in A. B. Robertson, "Dodd, Catherine Isabella (1860–1932)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004 Retrieved 1 October 2017. Subscription required.
- ^ a b Tom Steele, Alfred Orage and the Leeds Arts Club 1893–1923 (Mitcham, Orage Press, 2009) 218 ff.
- ^ Michael Saler, The Avant-Garde in Interwar England (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) p. 52.
- ^ see Heron interview in B. Read and D. Thistlewood, Herbert Read: A British Vision of World Art, London 1993.
- Lucknow University.
- ^ Chakraborty, Rachana (2012). "University of Calcutta". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 36792. London. 12 June 1902. p. 12.
- ^ "No. 28505". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 June 1911. p. 4593.
- ^ Michael Sadleir Papers, 1797-1958, unc.edu. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- ^ a b "Mary Sadler's Field". History on the streets of Oxford. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
- ^ Diaper, Hilary (1989). Michael Sadler: University Gallery, Leeds. University of Leeds. p. 5.
- ^ Diaper, Hilary (1989). Michael Sadler: University Gallery, Leeds. University of Leeds. pp. 12–13, 18.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71922. Retrieved 18 February 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Sadler, Michael (19 December 1934). "The Times Digital Archive – Marriages". The Times. p. 17. Retrieved 25 February 2020.(subscription required)
- OCLC 370871.
External links
- A detailed biography from UNESCO
- Archival material at Leeds University Library