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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... tion to him thus to differ from many to whom he is accustomed to look up , as most deserving of respect and esteem . But , whether right or wrong in his opinions , on a subject which is mixed up with some of the most exciting political ...
... tion to him thus to differ from many to whom he is accustomed to look up , as most deserving of respect and esteem . But , whether right or wrong in his opinions , on a subject which is mixed up with some of the most exciting political ...
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... tion . " Impracticable ! " exclaims this reflective thinker and genuine philanthropist , while he describes a state of things even now scarcely obsolete , and does the case come to this ; that from the arrogance of the high , and the ...
... tion . " Impracticable ! " exclaims this reflective thinker and genuine philanthropist , while he describes a state of things even now scarcely obsolete , and does the case come to this ; that from the arrogance of the high , and the ...
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... tion , and of its favorable effect in restraining the better taught from the commission of crime . These views are borne out by the last- published Report , that of 1845. By this document it appears that the increasing proportion of ...
... tion , and of its favorable effect in restraining the better taught from the commission of crime . These views are borne out by the last- published Report , that of 1845. By this document it appears that the increasing proportion of ...
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... tion of the Central Society of Education , it is estimated that , excluding Hungary and Transylvania , one in thirteen of the population were under elementary instruction , in 1837. The author of " Austria and the Austrians , " in the ...
... tion of the Central Society of Education , it is estimated that , excluding Hungary and Transylvania , one in thirteen of the population were under elementary instruction , in 1837. The author of " Austria and the Austrians , " in the ...
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... tion in the Prussian system , already existed in the Glasgow method ; and that the latter had gone far beyond the former in simplicity and efficiency : also that , " in Prussia , the schools had not moral training . " + Mr. Horace Mann ...
... tion in the Prussian system , already existed in the Glasgow method ; and that the latter had gone far beyond the former in simplicity and efficiency : also that , " in Prussia , the schools had not moral training . " + Mr. Horace Mann ...
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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.