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Ladies, Tlie Debate In The House Of Comm...
hy the managers , and these will be thus induced to increase voluntary effortthe responsibility of their staff being now left on
themselves instead , of resting on the central office . All money will now be paid to the managersand it will be for them to take care of
the condition of their school , , for the grants will be entirely withheld if this is not satisfactory . The present arrangement of
standards of examination will secure a steady progress in the scholarswhile it by no means fetters more varied instruction . An
average , of 10 s . per child m _# y thus be obtained in most schools ; and as this is considerably less than what has hitherto been given
in many , the difference , with what will be withdrawn from the Fine Arts' department and other expenses which will be lessened , allow
of a considerable extension to poorer districts , without materially increasing the expense to the country . . Evening schools , also , will
be encouraged by the aid offered , and these are peculiarly important for young persons at the critical age when they are beginning
to enter into life . Mr . Lowe's principles are good to help voluntary effortsboth personal or _j )© cuniary , and to give aid in proportion to
results , . It is to be desired that these principles should be carried out thoroughly and impartially . Eut an obstacle still exists to
the general applicability of the Revised Code to all schools impartially . The whole grant is to be withdrawn _"if the principal
teacher be not duly certificated . " Now , surely , as the Revised Code is based on the principle of resultsit may be safely argued that a
school cannot be in a good and satisfactory , state , according to all the criteria laid downunless the principal teacher is a good
, one . Also , as we have before seen , the possession of a certain amount of knowledge , and the fact of having gone through a
pupilteacher training , by no means tests the possession of the peculiar qualities of a good master . Why need there be any certificate of
_comj _3 etency beyond that afforded by the state of the schools ? Yet if a certificate must still be regarded as an essential , surely all who
prove themselves to be good teachers by a favorable inspection of their schoolsshould be admissible at once for examination for a
certificateinstead , of waiting , to the loss and injury of the school , for one or , two years as now provided . Surely , too , the teachers
who , having received certificates , are paid £ 80 , 000 annually by Parliament for teaching in workhouse schools , may be regarded as
certificated to teach in other schools also . A trifling alteration will effect this . Assistant teachers are required in all schools where
there are not pupil-teachers , or there is a fine of £ 10 ; but these assistant teachers are required to have been first pupil-teachers .
This system is inapplicable to the schools of which we are speaking- young and inexperienced boys and girls are of little use there ,
while ; they occupy an undue share of the master's attention , and even then do not obtain a good training ; but young persons of
have sixteen been years proved of age to ob or tain more an who excellent devote training themselves in such to the schools work , ,
262 National Education And The Revised C...
262 _NATIONAL EDUCATION AND THE REVISED CODE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/46/
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