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AN .INTERESTING' BLUE BOOK. 221
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To The Generality Of Readers "An Interes...
terrup sound ted and b permanent y the forwar permanent basis d till , the the claims making of il is labor fifteen it a p at lace is ten where , may the be to not education bethe only ke , in p -
mount up , but ob pushed ject of those who desire pup to extend , the , or elementary oug education , para of - the people . I consider that it demands attention more urgently , and will
repay It attention a woman more I largel found y , conducting even , than the the day nig -school ht-school . of Nether Cerne .
" was The The young mistress mistress at Donyatt at Mappowder another , had attended a private by twenty night-school -five pup of ils her . Both own . difficultin them thouh in the latter
there said they were found quite no big lads , and y the even carry scholars ing grown-up on m , arried g men ( who were case the
steadiest of the party ) among . " The Vicar of Axminster says _" Evening schools are tlie most
valuable of all schools . For boys , of fifteen and upwards , and for menespecially for the rougher sort of men , I find the assistance of
ladies , very far more valuable than that of any men , even clergymen . It Day makes -Schools them gentlemen for children " above infancy form the next division ,
and these again are similarly divided into public and private . With reliious regard difficulty to the — first the great evidence difficult of tlie y in commissioners any national is system conclusive _—tlie ,
to tlie g effect that parents select schools without reference to _religioiis teaching ; that the schools that are attended by children the best schools of all denomi within
their nations reach indifferentl . It is with y ; and the scho parent ol managers s prefer that the difficulty lies , though the Report very fairly points out that it is not in reality
liruch On the lessened question by this of the . possibility of shortening the hours of s ' chool , evidence
the conclusions of the Report , drawn from a mass of , are these—IThat for children under twelvetwenty-four hours a week
is nearl : the . limit of mental labor that can , be obtained , and is therefore the y limit of profitable instruction . —II . That eighteen hours is
children often more is not productive insufficient . —III . — . IV That . That fifteen in hvo hours hours allowed a day , to provided factory much
that th © se two hours be two fresh hours in the morning , may be done . —V . That children who have been educated up to the age ht in three in
of scho seven oL attendance in a good of infant from fifteen school to can ei be hteen taug hours a week years , to , read a g rules
wellto write welland to understand and apply the common , , of arithmetic .
laborer contimiousl At seven is emp y . or loyed At eig e ht ig at ht year interv ht or s nine of als . a age boy At the four beg ten child ins he work is of generall the at the week a y gricultural potteries at at work the ,
northern and children foundries under . eig An can Act earn of last session shillings prevented a children under twelve from being employed in mines and collieries , unless could read
they could produce a schoolmaster's certificate that they be and such write that ; but it can the hardl nature be of perfo the c rmed ollier ' s at emp all loyment unless is the alleged children to y
An .Interesting' Blue Book. 221
AN . INTERESTING' BLUE BOOK . 221
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/5/
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