Diary of the Month, 60, 123, 203, 251, 315, Infant Schools:- 97 28 40 I. 390 Diocesan Boards, London 129 Domestic Management and School L. Teaching 50 De Tocqueville on the Original Colo- nization of America 2 Church Scholars' Reading Book 267 V. English Mother Considerations for Young Christians 323 Visit to an Old Church Evangelical Truth and Apostolical Order Gall and Wilderspin on Education 190 119 W. 387 63 Warrington Schools 180 Glenrock Sunday School 268 Wells Diocesan Institution 315 Windsor and Eton Church Union, Re- Hiley's Grammar 323 THE EDUCATIONAL MAGAZINE. JULY, 1840. EDUCATION OF THE NEW COLONIES. We have assumed it as the common doctrine of the different sects and parties among us, that Education is the principal and most available remedy for the Social Evils under which this country labours; and we have endeavoured to ascertain, from the statements of persons generally at yariance with each other, what these social evils are, and, therefore, what education can be expected to meet them. But some of those who are most earnest in proclaiming Education as one of the medicines, perhaps the most needful, for our sick commonwealth, are also strongly of opinion that it will not be effectual unless another be applied at the same time. "Our people," they say, "at home must be instructed; but we must also persuade some considerable body of them to go abroad; we must colonize as well as teach." There may be a few who maintain in words, and more who believe secretly that the last of these methods is by far the most practical and decisive; that education is a slow process, carried on under innumerable obstructions, but partially understood, incapable of acting upon this generation; that colonization is a direct means of removing a huge present evil. We have no wish to controvert this notion, far less to slander the designs of those who are urging our countrymen to emigrate. We feel the force of their arguments, and admire their zeal. Our object is to consider whether the two subjects may not have a very close relation to each other; whether the principles of education must not be studied in order that we may understand the principles of colonization; and whether, if it be so, there are any indications in the history of colonization as to the mode in which education may be most effectively connected with it. The celebrated work of M. de Tocqueville, of which two new volumes have been lately translated by Mr. Reeve, is regarded by some persons VOL. II.-New Series, July, 1840. B |