The purpose of this thesis is straightforward: to survey the development of a 'private' school
over a period of a little more than half a century. In the survey, I hoped to indicate the way
in which the school developed as an institution: the main elements in its government and the
way it was affected by changing conditions; to describe the main features of its educational
programme: curricular and extra-curricular activities; and to attempt an assessnent of its
achievement and an analysis of its distinguishing characteristics. The period covered is from
the foundation of the school in 1896 to the resignation of F.R. Snell in 1952, the latter date
being chosen chiefly because the distance proper to a thesis did not seen possible in a survey
of this kind for the succeeding period. I have, however, also included a chapter on the
precursor of Michaelhouse as relevant background infomation; and I have taken the story of the
Old Boys up to the present, since most of them had been at school before 1952. Athough I have
included an assessment of the school's achievements in the list of purposes, it soon became
apparent that my aim should be more modest. The interaction of home, school and society is so
complex that a proper study of the school's role, even in so obvious a matter as academic
achievement and particularly in relation to such aims as leadership or religious development,
would require a careful sociological analysis which would have made the thesis extremely
unwieldy and for which sufficient information, especially on the earlier stages, was in any
case not available. My more modest aim was therefore to place the development of the school and
the education it provided in perspective. / Thesis (M.Ed.) - University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1968.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/2068 |
| Date | January 1968 |
| Creators | Barrett, Anthony McNaghten. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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