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220 AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK.
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To The Generality Of Readers "An Interes...
_T writing _^ erseveran classes ce , the hav earn e e been stness added , and . the I real cannot love speak of doing too good hig to _-lil which y of has the
their existence broug self ht these -imposed in ladies dis task trict out . in bu There all t weathers I will are onl many throug additionall oth h er the kinds winter refer of season to nig that ht school at discharge Stock s in - y y
in port addi . tion The to average my the usual number ; subjects of fem of ales scho present ol instruction is and seldom the , are less engaged than 672 during , who les ,
one of domes night tic in the instruction week in . learning These p pup lain ils sewing are all , factory practical workers , princi engaged p during the day in cotton mills , and there is neat to be and observed cleanl amongst them , as
at Coventry and Birmingham , besides a y appearance , an men order ts . and Every disci year pline ' s which experien always ce , in becomes fact , convinces a marked , me feature , from with t in he the these clearest habits establish obser of the - -
working vation have to , and be classes increased from which opportunities , and have that rarel of all becoming y kinds been of exceeded ac lab quainted or will , that have nig to ht - be scho shortened ols will
that they may be filled . " Difficulties in the way of procuring" teachers for the
eveningschoolsand in the classification of the scholars , whose ages and , attainments are extremely varioushave to be overcome . Two
sug-, gestions are made to meet the former of these : either the attendance at the day-school might be shortened , so as to allow the day teacher
to give a couple of hours for three or four evenings in . the week to a niht-school ; oran assistant might be engaged to take the place
of the g _princijDal teacher , in the afternoon school , and thus enable him to teach in the evening . A plan is proposed by Mr . Frazer ,
to suspend the day-school for the afternoons of four if not six winter monthsand set free the whole staff of teachers , who would thus be
, made ready and available for two hours' work in the evening . "We wish to draw particular attention to this , as it involves the adoption
of what may be called the short time system of education . A considerable mass of evidence can be produced in favor of three hours '
school instruction instead of & ve or six ; in some instances the evidence proves that three hours go further than five in education .
Mr . Frazer says that " the sacrifice in the real power of the dayschool would be infinitesimal ; that three hours well employed are
enough for most purposes o £ ordinary instruction , and that tlie intellectual condition of schools would not retrograde if , for a third of
three the year hour , at s from any nine rate , to all twelve the instruction , ( or , better were still , f condensed rom ten to into one , ) the of
the forenoon . Mr . Frazer is here thinking only of gaining a suply of teachers for the night-school , and before proceeding to still
p more important bearings of this half-time system , we may quote a few sentences of his evidence in favor of these schools : —
impotent " The intellectual , because the results suppl , y " he fails says just , " too of education soon . I are shall somewhat despair of lame seeing and
any considerable improvement till the night-school has assumed its proper been position either lost to and repair by due want the development of deficiencies practice , . or of A throu I ; ear present ly _gh education lapse the adults of , time or who to . recover I frequent start with what it come the has
principle that the development of the night -school , the placing it on a
220 An Interesting Blue Book.
220 AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/4/
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