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222 AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK.
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To The Generality Of Readers "An Interes...
are accustomed to it from a very early ag * e . In tlie large towns miscellaneous employments absorb a vast number of bs at nine
poor and ten remai , and n very at few scho indeed ol till of the the children of twelve of the independent In oy Wales
age . , riorit Mr . Jenkins y of its found population , in a , district in a school remarkable of sevent for y , tlie only moral three above
supeten years of ag _* e . The children of our independent popr have thus but a short time for schooling , and surely that time should be
But made them if close the it can most at be school of . for d Th th en as at it four many will lessons be hours sai of d of the half the best an day way hour as is each possible to keep are . prove
as much as a child of ten can receive in a day—tliat the rest of and the instruction that every is effort useless to — keep that it the b child eyond ' s attention that time is is exhausted a waste of ,
power—of power on the part both up of the teacher and the scholarhurtful then long The school h hours are th not only useless , they are _j > _ositivel , y
. pysical strengon which the child of the poor man the peculiarl brain y itself depends depends , the , are nervous weakened force b on the which unnatural the development strain . If as of y
two much knowled hours knowled ge th ( which an ge in is four last acquired or is five the , and all surel -important much more ents thing will power - ) be is of wise attained acquiring in h y par
to ap _| _Dreciate the gain . The , hours saved from schooling enoug may b li be efore ghtened s _| _3 ent the Commission in thereby working . All , and this both seems the to schooling be proved and by . the the evidence working
the Report notices a communication . In giving the from conclusions Mr . Chadwick before , mentioned embodying , similar evidence to that on which they are based , pointing to the
both the expediency time on the thus of bod set shortening at and libert the y the character in school drill , the hours lie invi has _generall gorating adduced y , effects and considerable emp of which loying , y
evidence to prove . , admirable Mr . Chad wick , read as a b sanitarian eforthe Briti , demands sh physical training . His
pa _| _Der e Association at Oxford" On the Physiological as well as Psychological Limits to Mental Labor , _" demonstrates its necessity , as increasing the power and perfection , of
nentl brain the instrument , whose decreases vi on gor the which and bodil clearness intellectual are . education Mr Impaired . Chadwick depends by whatever is ri — lit the in perma human insist- - _, y
ing on the physical training y powers as the groundwork of all g . It is the their first very ; root educated of the - matter afterw . ards Our . pop With ulation their must health be strong and strength and health goes y ?
means of subsistence ; and , until the means of subsistence is procured , education cannot advance a single step . The loss of the wanted means of ph subsistence ysical _develojDment is the loss mental of civilization cultivation . Three and things industri are al
and power b , , and no other these . three can all , be obtained by the half , -time system ,
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222 An Interesting Blue Book.
222 AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1861, page 222, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061861/page/6/
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