History of the Elementary School Contest in England

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Chapman and Hall, limited, 1882 - 349 sider

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Side 23 - The liberal education of youth passed almost entirely into their hands, and was conducted by them with conspicuous ability. They appear to have discovered the precise point to which intellectual culture can be carried without risk of intellectual emancipation. Enmity itself was compelled to own that, in the art of managing and forming the tender mind, they had no equals.
Side 46 - To make the society happy and people easy under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be ignorant as well as poor.
Side 38 - In every village marked with little spire. Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name...
Side 83 - So complete was my father's reliance on the influence of reason over the minds of mankind, whenever it is allowed to reach them, that he felt as if all would be gained if the whole population were taught to read...
Side 226 - Government a provision that in rate-supported schools in which the Scriptures were taught, "the teaching shall not be used or directed in favour of or against the distinctive tenets of any religious denomination.
Side 57 - ... perhaps somehow or another persuaded that there is a national education going on in this country. But our principal argument is, that Mr. Lancaster's plan is at least better than the nothing which preceded it. The authoress herself seems to be a lady of respectable opinions, and very ordinary talents ; defending what is right without judgment, and believing what is holy without charity.
Side 175 - Any attempt to keep the children of the labouring classes under intellectual culture after the very earliest age at which they could earn their living, would be as arbitrary and improper as it would be to keep the boys at Eton and Harrow at spade labour.
Side 38 - Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield : Her apron...
Side 84 - ... and that the only education which could be fitly and safely given to them was a religious education which " renders them patient, humble, and moral, and relieves the hardship of their present lot by the prospect of a bright eternity.
Side 57 - There is a risk of elevating, by an indiscriminate education, the minds of those doomed to the drudgery of daily labour, above their condition, and thereby rendering them discontented and unhappy in their lot. It may suffice to teach the generality, on an economical plan, to read their Bible and understand the doctrines of our holy religion.

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