The Crisis of Popular Education: Its Historical, Internal, Statistical, Financial, and Political Relations. Including a Consideration of the "Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education", and of the Educational Controversy, in General |
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... minds . Despotism is not one of those things which are most beautiful when " unadorned : " it must at last rest upon a ... mind , to the want of real instruction , B that we must attribute the licentiousness of thought , those CHAPTER ...
... minds . Despotism is not one of those things which are most beautiful when " unadorned : " it must at last rest upon a ... mind , to the want of real instruction , B that we must attribute the licentiousness of thought , those CHAPTER ...
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... minds . Passions unused to discipline , and ignorance of the consequences and relations of things , may induce them , as we have seen in our times , to resort to the breaking of machinery , incendiarism , the maiming of cattle , or some ...
... minds . Passions unused to discipline , and ignorance of the consequences and relations of things , may induce them , as we have seen in our times , to resort to the breaking of machinery , incendiarism , the maiming of cattle , or some ...
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... mind and character in general that is to be aimed at ; and though there may still be found among us those who would ... minds and hearts ; though it must be admitted that in a free country , with a soundly instructed people , all sorts ...
... mind and character in general that is to be aimed at ; and though there may still be found among us those who would ... minds and hearts ; though it must be admitted that in a free country , with a soundly instructed people , all sorts ...
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... mind , within the last half century , constitute a pheno- menon in the history of nations ; and there has been a corresponding advance of popular instruction . Prussia has long been eminently distinguished in this career , and was the ...
... mind , within the last half century , constitute a pheno- menon in the history of nations ; and there has been a corresponding advance of popular instruction . Prussia has long been eminently distinguished in this career , and was the ...
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... minds . The savage wildness of the common boys playing in the streets in German towns , has perhaps no parallel in Europe ... mind by a conversation with a school - officer of great intelligence and high authority , the inspector of the ...
... minds . The savage wildness of the common boys playing in the streets in German towns , has perhaps no parallel in Europe ... mind by a conversation with a school - officer of great intelligence and high authority , the inspector of the ...
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accommodation admitted amount annual appears average attendance Baines Baines's British and Foreign Catholics census cent Cheshire Christian Church classes connexion daily scholars day schools day-school deficiency Dissenters efficient elementary England and Wales established estimate existing five and fifteen Foreign School Society grants ignorance increase infant schools inspectors intellectual labour Lancashire less Liverpool Lord Lord John Russell Manchester Manchester Statistical Society manufacturing districts master means ment mind ministers of religion Minutes monitorial system monitors moral National School nearly normal school number of children number of daily number of scholars object opinion parents Parliament parties popular education private scholars private schools proportion Prussia Public Scholars public schools pupil teachers regarded religion religious instruction Report respecting Returns of 1833 Salford school-accommodation school-system schoolmaster secular education Sunday scholars Sunday Schools supposed taught teaching tion total number voluntary principle voluntary societies W. F. Hook whole number
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Page 84 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 32 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 34 - We hope to excite a feeling of respectability, and a sense of character, by enlarging the capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime.
Page 34 - ... intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Page 214 - Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 57 - And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Page 192 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shall have praise of the same: . for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Page 31 - ... his own, so far as he has occasion for it, to furnish for himself and his children the blessings of religious instruction and the elements of knowledge. This celestial, and this earthly light, he is entitled to by the fundamental laws. It is every poor man's undoubted birthright, it is the great blessing which this constitution has secured to him, it is his solace in life, and it may well be his consolation in death, that his country stands 'pledged by the faith which it has plighted to all its...
Page 100 - Ich gestehe frei; die Erinnerung des David Hume war eben dasjenige, was mir vor vielen Jahren zuerst den dogmatischen Schlummer unterbrach und meinen Untersuchungen im Felde der spekulativen Philosophie eine ganz andere Richtung gab.
Page 34 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.