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been afforded to all , the greater number would have been what the few at present are , and the few would have been still more distinguished . That it might afford the benefit of its tuition to all classes of the people , and that it might avoid the evil , so much to be deprecated , of excluding from that advantage any portion of the community , the University of London was obliged to leave the teaching of religion to be provided for by each sect in
conformity with its own views of that sacred subject . The obvious expedient , to which the plan of the University of London most happily adapts itself , is ^ that the leading denominations of Christians should establish theological schools , each for itself , consisting of as many chairs as it might deem expedient , with merely stich a local connexion with the University , as might enable those who were studying at the one to resort conveniently to the other .
Such young men as were destined for Dissenting ministers would begin with the literary and scientific studies of the University , and when the course of those disciplines was at its close , or drawing towards its close , they would resort to the appropriate schools of divinity , and would continue their attendance on such as they might choose of the lectures in the University , and their connexion with such of their former companions in those studies , as their mutual improvement might suggest .
We have spoken so largely of the benefits resulting to the middle class from the University of London , not that we are not satisfied that advantages will redound to the higher classes , as well by their attendance on its instructions , as by the improvements it will force upon the institutions to which they have hitherto resorted , and the demand for a higher degree of intellect which it will render general in the nation ; but because it is a new thing for the middle classes to have the means of intellectual education brought within
their reach . To them it is therefore a peculiar opening . It is a source of good which they may be expected especially to prize , not only because it has hitherto been shut up from them , but because they may draw from it with advantages peculiarly their own . We see , and we see with satisfaction , that the council of the University have n 6 t affected a logical precision in distributing the field and classifying the subjects of tuition . While our knowledge is far from enabling us to
arrange with accuracy the subjects of human inquiry , no distribution could be made which would not be liable to objections ; and every man would hold that mode defective which did not present the subjects in the same point of view in which it was customary to nim to look at them . For the purposes of teaching , common sense directs that the convenience of teaching should be the ruling principle in distributing the subjects to be taught . To this it is essential that the entire enumeration should embrace all that is required to constitute a full and perfect education . It appears to us , that the catalogue
of subjects presented in the prospectus of the London University fulfils this condition . And with respect to the breaking down of this whole into its most convenient parts , it is evident that utility will be most consulted by leaving it unfixed and variable according to varying circumstances . The most important of those circumstances undoubtedly will be the qualifications of the teachers . It will often happen among the related branches of knowledge that one man may be well qualified to teach a certain portion , but not so large a portion as another man . It would be expedient to make a different distribution of subjects for each of these two men ; including more in the course if the one , less in it if the other , were to be the teacher . If two men lectured on two sections of a great science , it might be expedient to include mofe ih the one , less in the other , upon every change of the professors .
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170 Scientific Education .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/10/
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