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AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK. 219
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To The Generality Of Readers "An Interes...
selves in the same place . " Public Infant Seliools , on the other handhave a very high standard of attainmentand such is the
value , of the training they impart , that schoolmasters , almost universally say that the children of Infant Schools exhibit a marked
superiority both in intelligence and in manner . Their importance is again ajnd again insisted on : they are cheap—they are free from
the religious difficulty—they save time by securing the attendance of children before they can earn anythingand by turning them out
, better scholars at an earlier age . Evenin g _Schools supply the deficiencies of early education . The
instruction is chiefly elementary , and the pupils above the ordinary school age . In Dr . Hodgson's district , ( mining *) out of a total of
, 8 , 109 scholars attending evening schools , 1 , 26 7 were females , * arid more than a fourth of the whole were above sixteen years of
agethe female adults outnumbering the males . At Wells , Mr . Hare found the Bishop himself teaching a class of navvies to read and
cipher . They had walked in clean smock frocks after work a distance of two miles to their studies . Every one had his reason for coming .
All were animated by the desire to improve . "At a private eveningschool at Bristol , " says one of the commissioners , " I had been
conversing with the master for some time , which of course prevented him humming from attending and even symptoms to his business of whistling . Presentl 'The y I master heard sai a restless d i Do
, . , you understand that ? ' I said no . He replied , You see , these 23 eople come to workthey pay for coming hereand they don't mean to be
, , curtailed of their rights . '" Mr . Winder , another commissioner , says" 'On one occasion I was examining a class of young men at Hoehdale
_, wlieii the hour'for breaking up arrived . I was about to stop , when one of the scholars appealed to me as follows— ' Go thou on ; we
want as much as we can get for our money . ' In another school , at Bradford , I found a class learning * reading and arithmetic at once .
Each scholar had by his' side a Bible and a slate ; when his turn and came tlieit , he read went his on verse with , the laid _siim down till his the book circuit as soon was as again it was comp finished lete . " ,
This , though a fine proof of zeal , is a questionable mode of learning either reading or arithmetic . We gladly quote on this subject a
passage from Mr . Baker's Factory ' Report for 1860 . He says : — " There is in district an increased number of niht-schools for the
my g for working the elementar _classes of y both teaching sexes of . the It is adolescents upon these and that adults I place of most the reliance present
a generation vast amount , and of for interest the carry taken ing now on of , in that the which manufacturing is to succeed districts them . , in There femal is make education the , workman and espec ' s i home ally in more the g attr iving active that kind than it of has knowled hitherto ge which been . In to th
time entirel I 860 e school , upw y to b em ards y which ladies loy of has 400 their , between been garments fingers established the were their months made at leisure Coventry b y scholar November of f which or s , this unaccustomed , 1859 with purpose , nine and , taug A afore pril ht - ,
pr tions esent , were time paid p there for are out 140 of the scholar or earn s ings in regular of those , attendance who made , , them reading . At excep and the
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An Interesting Blue Book. 219
AN INTERESTING _BLUE BOOK . 219
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/3/
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