The Schools for the People: Containing the History, Development and Present Working of Each Description of English School for the Industrial and Poorer Classes

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Bell & Daldy, 1871 - 582 sider

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Side 122 - The Government School of Mines and of Science applied to the Arts...
Side 136 - Commons was appointed in that year 'to inquire into the best means of extending a knowledge of the Arts and of the principles of Design among the people, especially the manufacturing population of the country; also to inquire into the constitution, management, and effects of Institutions connected with the Arts.
Side 46 - England as by law established; but such orders shall be confined to the exemption of such children, if their parents desire it, from attendance at the public worship, and from instruction in the doctrine or formularies of the said Church, and shall not otherwise interfere with the religious teaching of the scholars, as fixed by these presents, and shall not authorize any other religious instruction to be given in the school.
Side 442 - Writing, Arithmetic, and Needlework shall be taught ; the lessons for reading shall consist of extracts from the Holy Scriptures; no catechism or peculiar religious tenets shall be taught in the schools...
Side 387 - The great object of this Institution is to supply, at such an expense as a working tradesman can afford, instruction in the various branches of Science which are of practical application to mechanics in their several trades, so that they may the better comprehend the reason for each individual operation that passes through their hands, and have more certain rules to follow than the mere imitation of what they have seen done by another.
Side iii - If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength : but wisdom is profitable to direct.
Side 386 - V the heaven-lighted lamp of man,' that the question was forced upon me — Why are these minds left without the means of obtaining that knowledge which they so ardently desire ; and why are the avenues to science barred against them, because they are poor...
Side 312 - poor men's children are many times endued with more singular gifts of nature, which are also the gifts of God, as, with eloquence, memory, apt pronunciation, sobriety, and such like ; and also commonly more apt to apply their study, than is the gentleman's son, delicately educated.
Side 312 - For (said he) poor men's children are many times endued with more singular gifts of nature, which are also the gifts of God, as with eloquence, memory, apt pronunciation, sobriety, with such like, and also commonly more given to apply their study, than is the gentleman's son delicately educated.
Side iii - The Schools for the People, containing the History, Development and Present Working of each Description of English School for the Industrial and Poorer Classes. By George CT Hartley, Examiner Science and Art Department, Author of the One Square Mile in the East of London.

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