It seems to me there's a massive irony here that the article misses: the education system was supposed to cultivate "moral and cultural formation", "a brave, helpful, truth-telling Englishman, and a gentleman, and a Christian", "religious and moral principles" . . . and the result was an elite that believed above all in the rectitude of its own supremacy and had no scruples about exploiting and oppressing millions of people across the globe. If the purpose of the Victorian education was to produce good people, it failed miserably.