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THEIR USES AND SHORTCOMINGS. 23
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so large tliat the additional £ 101 , 000 a year , though considerable In itselfis comparatively small . In some of the higher kind of
grammar , schools boys receive an . education which fits them for college often poor professional avail at a themselves cheap men rate , of of ; farmers and the the advantages and sons the of upper her ill- e beneficed class offered of , tradesmen clergy sometimes and ,
boarding and lodging with the head master . In other schools a good commercial education is iven at a rate so far below prime cost that
the a walk poorest . As tradesman a general can rule g afford the common to send his endowed sons if schools within reach are but of
little _siiperior to ordinary national ones , and the class of children that But in frequent some of them these noble only a establishments shade above the those orp of han laboring sons of men poor .
tradesmen are gratuitously received , boarded , clothed , educated , and children finally apprenticed are protected to from any trade the evil they influences wish to whi learn ch would ; thus other these
wise surround their poverty and helplessness . fail is Doubtless owing to produce to w in ant the many of good instances superintendenc effect they - these oug e schools ht and , but is are not thi ill s - caused partial naanaged b failure y and the
poverty of the endowments , for in some of the instances of inefficiency cited Under by the proper Commissioners regulations the these pay schools of the master would is be very wealth large y . * and *
numerous enough to provide all the classes whom they are intended to masters benefit with and good even model nowimperfe schools ct and as good is their training management places , for they private have
a great effect ; in these respects , and raise the standard of education among these favored classes considerably above its natural level .
unequall exclude But d a y from stud divided y all of , share the and table in that the some will advantages show sections that For are these instance almost benefits entirel in the are y
. , common endowed schools it will be seen that the number of girls educated in them is small , compared to the boys , the number
being The , — numb Boys er , 100 of male , 849 ; and Girls female , 60 , 511 children . existing in every class
schools being the than sam are e , wanted we must or conclude that ther either e are th not at enoug there h are for more girls boy . It s '
having to avoid never coming been to stated the conclusion , that the that former there is the is a case great , it is deficiency impossible in .
the This latter deficiency respect . ought therefore to be made up out of the new about the
fund and the number of boy and girl scholars brought to : A ' ree . sing . t Coventry g le ram pup mar il , there ' althoug school are the h seven the income income endowed of is which _^ £ schools 220 is . . At £ 536 witli Wotton , estimated the an scholars -under aggregate at - ten Ed 350 ge in income there number Several is of a .
) ther 2 * , 808 Edinburg instances ; the number h are Review quoted of boy , Jul in s educated the y 1861 Commissioners . in Popular Education them is ' Report Education . 100 , . page . 34 , and _Abstract of the al Commissioners on page
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Their Uses And Shortcomings. 23
THEIR USES AND SHORTCOMINGS . 23
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/23/
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