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NATIONAL EDUCATION AND THE REVISED CODE....
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Ladies, Tlie Debate In The House Of Comm...
classes will suffer , even should considerable aid be withdrawn from their schools . But more , the system of pupil-teachers , which may
have been necessary when first established to secure a number of impediment teachers of sufficient in the efforts intellectual to educate training iC the -, has poor now the remote become the an
, , in unfriended giving * . a " 2 Hun : _fess dreds iO 11 gratis of thousands to some of favored pounds thousands are annuall of y young spent but those who educated and trained cannot b
mean persons s , be proved to be are the so very fittest for the purpose . y The any office of teacher isbeyond all othersone requiring very special
, , whether qualifications young and 1 boys mental and g adap irls tation of thirteen . How possess can it these be' predicated qualities ,
and will , when arrived at adult age , throw themselves into the profession with that love which "will secure their due fulfilment of
Its _hig"h duties ? _Thej _r cannot , as is proved hy the multitude who for go ' throug receiving h their 1 a g tim _* ood e ; education and then , avail having themselves been paid of by it the elsewhere country .
, Besides , if they do persevere , and obtain higii intellectual qualifications in a normal school , these do not prepare them for the more
difficult kinds of teaching" which are to be grappled with in Ragged Schoolsin Industrial Schoolsand in Reformatories . Such schools
have been , refused Government , educational aid because they had not certified teachers and pupil-teachers , and the managers have
been treated as if they were contumeliously unwilling * to conform to Government regulations . The fact has been that such teachers
neither can nor will undertake the difficult work . Repeatedly nave I applied to training schools to obtain teachers for such
- young schools persons , and always who have without gone success throug ; h several the pup times il-teacher have training I asked
to become assistants in such a school ; not one has ever responded . The training they have gone through , has not prepared them for
such work . The existence of this system as a sine qua non in educational grants has been the grand obstacle in the way of
. neglected and destitute districts and children obtaining any fair , share of the Educational Grant , though for the good of society , as
well as their own , it is they who ought to be especially considered in the distribution of it . Then there would be no longer a dense
underlying mass of ignorance in our country as there is now , rearing- up children for our reformatories and workhouses . As
Is truly said , Ladies , in the leader to which I have already referred , Statesmen should now" in consistency , give a thought to the very
poor , to the remote rural , parishes , and to the rest of the million or two now outside the educational fold . "
The Revised Code , with the changes introduced by Mr . Lowe , appears well calculated to check many of the growing evils of the
old one , and to extend the advantages of the Educational grant Into the neglected districts . National and British schools will no
v longer be able to receive four or even six times the amount raised
National Education And The Revised Code....
NATIONAL EDUCATION AND THE REVISED CODE . 261
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/45/
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