...Is statistical process control a valid means of understanding process performance? Benchmarking ... a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought . . . (Matthew Arnold on criticism) KEY LEARNING POINTS Key definition of benchmarking: the practice...

...subject matter of criticism "is determined for it by the idea which is the law of its being; the idea of a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current of fresh and true ideas" (Arnold [1864] 1962a: 282)....

...from his apartment balcony.32 Already a well-respected literary critic who sought to cultivate "the disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world," Arnold saw that his cultural mission needed to be taken out of the esoteric confines...

...approach, it is worth remembering that there is nothing second rate in what Matthew Arnold called the 'disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world' (Arnold [1864] 1906: 23). Attempts to blur the distinction at the present time are much...

...the cultural fortunes of a jazz "classic," are we carrying out or flouting the critical mandate of a "disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world"? 16 Can this piece of Jelly Roll be regarded as a "touchstone" of poetic excellence by...

..."culture" that often echoes some of Matthew Arnold's famous definitions - of "criticism," for example, as a "disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world," and of "Culture" as consisting of the "best that has been known and said in the world,...

...essay on 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time'. Its function, he asserts, is to carry out 'a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world'.4 Though Arnold is referring to various intellectual disciplines under the term 'criticism',...

...Volgens een uitspraak van Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) gaat het bij cultuurstudies om criticism' ofwel 'a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world'." Waar voor Arnold het idee van criticism' vooral slaat op het uitzoeken van wat waardevol...

...own. - Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) 23. Criticism I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. - Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions,...

...soil that was lying fallow. Arnold, in his secular wisdom, had defined the activity of criticism as a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.^ Chesterton accepted the humanistic part of this argument, but he was less "disinterested":...