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218 AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK.
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To The Generality Of Readers "An Interes...
blishing in the foundation ' a general of system the Nation of popular al Society education and of . the They British resulted and
part Forei in gn the School education Society of . the In country 1832 and the . has In Government continued 1839 , and to began afterwards extend to them take in
institutions upon 1846 , an it extended increasin including its g scale operations the two up above to , the named present , have day . for Nine their central object
Associ the promoti ations , on all now of educ in connexion ation in with England the , system besides of public many grants lesser
annuall administered y from , by 1832 the Privy to 1839 Council , which . was A sum expended of £ 20 in , 000 the erection was voted of
school buildings . In 1839 it was increased to £ 30 , 000 , and its tion administration From 1839 given to to 1860 the Committee the amount of has Privy graduall Council y swelled on Educa , till
it Committee reached . nearl were y at £ 800 first , 000 confined , in the to last assisting year . in The the efforts erection of the of
was elementary established and normal Its princi schools le . was In 1846 that the if pup private il-teacher individuals system
would provide a . school of a certain p degree , of efficiency , the Government would for five yearsthe salaries of a certain number of
apprentices to pay the , schoolmaster , . Government supplies all deserving to pup select the il- , teachers support contributing with of thirt free ab y- out five admissions of of 75 the these per teachers to institutions cent such , salaries training of the . Grants college whole and s are expense as itation they also
grant child given s who , in which has augmentation are attende sums d paid school to 176 school days managers in ' the on course ; account of cap the of every
presystem ceding of year Government . So much hel for p to the education growth in in and Eng stitutions extent land . of for the the present educa
Infant Schools stand first among the - tion of the independent poor , and they receive the unqualified commendation of the commissioners .
" to "In say the nothing family of of a the mechanic ignorance or of day the laborer parents , " says , the the father Report is , to six at nihtThe
mother usuall well if y she has at is work to allowed perform from to personall six devote in the herself y all morning household entirely to operations these ;) g " the ; . " house ( it is has
is not furnished with objects which awaken intelligence , nor remote any one villages leisure to the form Infant the manners School and is generall temper y of inefficient the child . . " The In
schoolroom , a cottage kitchen ; the teacher employed in her domestic dutiesand at intervals teaching the alphabet or easy words .
Sometimes , the room is offensive from overcrowding . " I have seen and children tumbling , " says over one one witness another , " as like closely packed ies in a as kennel birds ; " in another a nest ,
pupp saw" at dinnerin the midst of the children , a collier , ( the mistress ' s meal husband , would , ) and in two all , probability lodgers , fresh proceed from the to coal undress -pit , and who wash after them their
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218 An Interesting Blue Book.
218 AN _INTERESTING BLUE BOOK .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/2/
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