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Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (1850–1936) was an Irishman who pursued a career in England as an inspector of schools, rising to Chief Inspector for Elementary Schools in 1905. A leaked memorandum criticising fellow inspectors forced his resignation in 1911, but he fashioned a new career for himself writing on education and comparative religion. Holmes, who was one of the country’s earliest and most ardent advocates of Maria Montessori’s libertarian approach to education, repeatedly expressed alarm at the obsession with meeting targets and at treating the classroom as a drill-square, where teachers must always be ‘working against the grain of the child’s nature.’
