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ON A SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
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MARCH , 1827 .
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There is nothing more remarkable in the history of Protestant England , tfoan the neglect with which she has treated education . It is well known , however , that of the wise men who have left us their sentiments on the subjects most interesting to human kind , there is hardly one who has not represented education as the principal source of all that is to be wished , or all that is to be deprecated , in behalf of our species . A few names may be adduced as a specimen . Plato , with whom may be joined
his master Socrates , whose sentiments he professes to deliver , Aristotle , Cicero , Quintilian , Bacon , Milton , Fenelon , Locke , are among those who have treated of education as the first of all sublunary interests . Of education , it is necessary to distinguish two species ; one , the object of which is , to impart the qualifications required for the ordinary purposes of life ; the other , the object of which is , to impart the higher qualifications of intellect , and train the human mind to its greatest excellence .
The qualifications chiefly aimed at by the first species of education , are reading , writing , and arithmetic . As these are of indispensable necessity for all the pursuits of life , except the very lowest , an adequate interest compelled the provision of means sufficient in extent to supply that large portion of the population by whom these qualifications were required . The higher qualifications of intellect , the object of the second species of
education , appear to have been regarded in England as interesting but a small part of the population ; and as worthy of very little care on the part either of the community or its rulers , Two seminaries only , for the higher branches of instruction , exist in England , the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge . These , however , existed in Popish times ; they are the result of Popish wisdom and philanthropy ; and no addition , notwithstanding the increase of population , notwithstanding the invention of printing , the multiplication of books , and the progressive importance of literature , nas been made to them
since the Protestant era . One thing deserves to be remarked with respect to schools . The revival of letters , as it is called , or the passion for the study of Greek and Roman literature , which was diffused in Europe after the fell of Constantinople , gave rise to the formation of grammar schools , in wfrich the rudiments ot the
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . III .
On A Scientific Education And The University Of London.
ON A SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION AND THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON .
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VOL . I . M
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/1/
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