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THE REVISED CODE. 187
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1. A Revised Code Of Regulations. Presen...
viz having the * for British their definite and Forei purpose Societ the y education and the of National the lower Society classes . ,
Under . their auspices schools gn were established , in many parts of the countryand the combined system of Bell and Lancaster introduced .
While , an extraordinary step was thus taken in advance of the dame-schoolthe monitorial methodupon which system the
organization of these , new schools was conducted , , proved in practice very defectiveThe teachershaving received no preparatory training ,
were monitors ignorant . selected and from prejudiced , ; the and scholars , as a natural without consequence the advant , ages the
of better instructionnever among rose above the , dead level of mediocrity . particularl Public attention active at , in leng inquiring th became into excited tke question . Lord Broug of education ham was al
progress , and y in 1835 he brought the subject prominently before Parliament . A Committee was consequently appointed ; and after
the the most effect minute that the and means searching of National scrutiny , Education a Report was "were drawn lamentabl up to y
deficient . This led to the Order in Council of 1839 , creating the this Committee Board are of the similar Privy to Council those which on Education the Treasury . The had functions hitherto of
exercised Parliament , viz for . tlie to superintend of promoting the application Public of Education any sums voted . " by
The immediate consequence purpose of this measure was the development of various schemes connected with the spread of educationall of
, which Old Co reached de" was maturit fullestablished y in 1846 ; and when which what _wdth is now the termed tion " The of excep
a few trivial alterations y has remained , in force , up to the present , moment
the In broad our . limited features space of this , it were Minute impossible of 1846 to ; but do more we cannot than under sketch
controversy stand the . present . Those ag who itation desire without to stud mastering y the matter the Sir deep subject ly may under be
safel Shuttleworth y referred — to the the Four work Periods 'lately of published Public Education by James embracin Kay g thirty years . , A great social reformer himself , and one , b to whom
the cause of education is much indebted , he has proved y practical instruction experience the within benefits reach -which of the result working from popul placing ation the and means the impera of _g-ood
tive necessity that religious teaching must ever accompany , secular education . bear in mind
that Before England considering does not the recognise Minute compulsory of 1846 , we education must , neither does education
her Managers school Government can may receive conduct insist a grant upon their of any public schools particular money as they without system think conformin of fit , only g no to .
the But rules as this and ant regulations laid a third clown art by of the the Council income on of the Education schools . p
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The Revised Code. 187
THE REVISED CODE . 187
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/43/
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