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 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 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 152 - Association is formed to promote the establishment, by law, in England and Wales, of a system of free schools, which, supported by local rates and managed by local committees specially elected for that purpose by the ratepayers, shall impart secular instruction only ; leaving to parents, guardians and religious teachers the inculcation of doctrinal religion, to afford opportunities for which the schools shall be closed at stated times in each week.
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 232 - It was impossible for us to join in the language or to adopt the tone which was conscientiously and consistently taken by some members of the House who look upon these voluntary schools, having generally a denominational character, as admirable passing expedients, fit indeed to be tolerated for a time, deserving all credit on account of the motives which led to their foundation, but wholly unsatisfactory as to their main purpose, and, therefore, to be supplanted by something they think better.
Side 69 - ... college/ As member of parliament, he was associated with Samuel Whitbread and others belonging to the active group which advocated popular instruction and the monitorial system. After Whitbread's death, Brougham became the parliamentary leader of this group, and, in 1816, he secured the appointment of a select committee to enquire into the education of the lower orders of the metropolis.
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 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.

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