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THEIR USES AND SHORTCOMINGS. 21
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. above them _* ' and the Commissioners themselves and the general public education seem than , to be is likel of opinion to be , that of use they to have them latel in their y received humble a station higher . y
The upper classes being wealthy , have of course no need of help . The portion of society then which sections most of requires that assistance division must called be
: sought for among the various large the Middle Classes . Some of thesehoweverare already at least tolerably well
provided from existing , endowments , ; let us then take a brief review of the present condition of Middle Class Educationwith a view of
, hel discovering receive whether as yet ther little e are or any none sections . But first which we , thoug will h specif in want y what of
are p , the benefits which endowed schools door at least ought to , confer
. The benefits which proceed from endowed schools are twofold . First there is the direct good done of providing those educated in
them with useful instruction , and secondly there is the indirect but more widely spread good which they effect by raising the standard
of B education our efore minds decidin generall which g on y the of . these subject of new endowments we consider , we to be must the make most purposes
means man Important up or of other . iving If person the his object children above we making set a good before use education us of a is n to ational at provide a rate school every below with trades prime the
costthen g the number of schools required will be very large and the the requisite , Commissioners sum of money But beyond if our object that to is be to pr placed ovide at a cer the ta disposal in number of
. of well-conducted schools as models , found to offer at the same time a good education to those who will hereafter become teachers in
private quired would educational be much establishments smaller and , the then expense the number far less of heavy schools . re If
the amount of money at command were unlimited , it would perhaps "be desirable to attemp t , the first object , but this is not the case . A . hundred thousand a cannot provide education below prime cost
for all who would be year benefited by receiving it ; we must choose thereforewhether we ¦ will provide for some one section in this
b manner enefit equall , , wholl y y among neglecting all , by the g others iving the teachers to , or every whether of section we at will model schools divide schools the
and places of education , where prive can be trained . The first course would be manifestly unjust . To educate one
portion another of portion the community equally in hi want ghly of out assistance of public wholl money y , unaided but while it leaving , is is an
injustice into which that we can never easil be be committed led unless intentionall we become y well , instructed one in the facts of the may caseknow y how the existing schools are distributed ,
which classes they benefit , , and which they leave unassisted .
* See Mr . Gladstone ' s speech at Oxford . Times , November 23 rd , 1861 .
Their Uses And Shortcomings. 21
THEIR USES AND SHORTCOMINGS . 21
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/21/
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