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ON MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION. 229
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Influen In The Tial Year Journal 1832, I...
making ence themsel known ves , their and t proficiency heir pupils feel are it wanting also ; opportunities alike to both for . "
the Dr . business Arnold of then education shows : how " For this a schoolmaster want of guaran of a tee commercial degrades
rendered school having dependen no t means on the of inhabi acquiring tants a general his own celebrity immedia , t e This
i nei terferes ghbourhood with ;— disci if he line offends the them boys , he is ruined well aware . of greatl their y
their parents n mas ' p t ower er ' s , au and thority p comp ; ; lain nor to is t it always agains that t the the exercise parents of their
impor themselves tance can and resist giving the the temptation master to understand of showing 5 that he must own
be careful aving how thus , he shown ventures in his to disp first lease letter them the . ' ral evil arising
f Dr rom Arnold this irresponsibl in his second e posit letter ion of traces the commercial to the same schoolmas cause ter an ,,
t intellec o . t t may fault be in calle these d schools professional , viz ., , their as dis exclusive tinguished atten from tion two businesses the his
liberal , s ticular tudies . profession " Every man or calling has be it what it ; will one that of
own par , , soldier ther is , seam his general an , farmer calling , lawyer which , mechanic he has in , or common the like with , — -the all
o , his The nei educa ghbours tion whic , nam h fi t y , the calling the firs of t of a these citizen two and businesses a man .
is is called called liberal professional " Paren ; and ts are that almos which t universall fits him for anxious the latter that , , y
their tand boys but little should . and have the the middle first ? whil schools e of the de second pending they as they under do
s ; , on ided the view paren of t the s' f work avour of , are education forced . to adopt this narrow
onechol s This to was thin Dr k . h Arnold ow litt ' s le comp has lain been t 30 done years in ago the : it is terval melan to
remed y y so unsatisfactory a state of things . This interval of 30 remarkable years has witnessed imrovemen —thanks t in the mainl hiher y to Dr m . ar Arnold schoo — l : a it most has gram
seen too a yet p greater advance in g the efficiency of the elementhe tary almost school f stationary . But th . between ere As fore then these on , so the two now ca , , the r it ice is middle or sadly school j ud p i enden ce has of been t t he
avour pp interfered parents ; as with then and , so the now course , dis of cip studies line is miserabl thereby y injuriousl narrowed y
to Two what efforts is showy have , or been commercial made of ly late profitable s to . remedy these evils .
The the firs establishment t and most important of the College ( as year I am of Preceptors inclined to in believe 1846 ) .
was The second was the institution of the Oxford and Cambridge
local examinations in 1858 .
On Middle-Class Education. 229
ON MIDDLE-CLASS EDUCATION . 229
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/13/
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