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LVIII.—AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK. {Contin...
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Lviii.—An Interesting Blue Book. {Contin...
LVIII . —AN INTERESTING BLUE BOOK . { Continued from page 224 . ) _
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¦ — - . » questions Factory the other of _Edtjcation the its extension day . is On one is the eagerl of one the y hand demanded most it is important pronounced . There is educational a no failure doubt ;
on that the Act of 1833 as altered in the House of Lords , and passed , thoug not provide h one of for the the most efficient , beneficent teaching Acts of the of modern children leg subj islation ected , to did its
nal provisions schools . : The it must consequence be added was that , that in they many attende cases d there merel were y nomi no
-, others worker open disabled to receive at the them mill . Their was set education over a was room a or mere cellar mockery full of ;
a children ied , to noisy , disorderly little advant , and e for with the a most few tatt part ered unoccup books . ied , But or ag
this arising occup is not from factory Where very _, a deficiency education the schools , , which so much are mi efficient as ght the be neg the remedie lect half and d -time abuse easil system y of and it , entirely ,
has produced . the most satisfactory results . Six of her Majesty ' s law Inspectors for securing have memorialized a certain amount Government of schooling in favor to all of children one general
emp it loyed . The in mines itmen of and Durham manufactures and Northumberland . The people themselve petitioned s desire that p
from ten to fourteen no boy should work down the pit more than six The hours influence a day , of that mill he -owners might go and to other school large the other employers half of of it labor . educationh
can do more for the improvement of factory , throug munity the are becoming Leg . islature There aware and is of evidence otherwise the responsibilii that , than throug any y which other hout instances class the such country in an the in influence which com they
involves . The Commissioners met with many the great education and successful of their efforts work had- been le . made They by quote emp the loyers remarkable to secure peop
instance of the London Lead Company . The account of their system _, reads like a chapter from some Utopia . Ten thousand people ,
scattered over an area thirty miles long and ten broad , are dependent on the Company . They require every boy to go to school if she remain
long from at six home to twelve The , every parents girl pay from Is , six . a to quarter fourteen for , each child , and so
. for instruction of first-rate quality — the elder girls acting as monitorsOf the adult populationninety-four per cent , can read ;
A eight race y-one . of can write mothers also , le has aving grown , only up six " who educated can , do reli neither gious , . young
assistance sensible , orderl in the y in preparation their domestic , of lessons arrangements at home . , ' and The able following to give
quotation gives a picture of these homes , which every lover of
England and the life of her people must rejoice to read : —
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/16/
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