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consists of free schools for boys and girls , and an establishment for boarding , clothing , and training up young men and women f q ^ school-masters and school-mis ^ tresses , so as to qualify them to undertake the qharge of ngw schools . To this school and estar blishraent , the king and queen ^ the prince , of Wales , the princesses ^ and the royal dukes , have extended their patronage and annual bounty .
For a detail of tjie precise nan ture of this ^ p lan , Jojseplv Lancaster must refer to his printed book , intitled , *? Improvements in ^ Education ;' ¦ * byi its . distinguishing features are these : —
. 1 . That , by his ^ systerq . of order and rewards , together with the division of the school into classes , and the assistance of monitors , one master , is able to cpnduct a school of one thousand children
2 . Th $ t by printing a spellingbook , or any other Jessons for reading , in a large type , upon one side of the paper , and pasting the sheets thus printed on a
pasteboard , they may ,, wjijen suspended to a nail , agarust the wail , be read by any , number of children ;—a method whereby one book will serve for a whole , scho < pl , instead of a book for each child .
3 * That by the introduction of writing upon slates , and one boy spelling to his whole class any certain word , the hoys in the class will instantly write it , going on in this manner for an hour or
more , sq that boys may write and spell one hundred words in the course of a mornins : —a method whereby five hundred boys may spell and write the same word at the samq instant of time . 4 , An entire new method of
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instruction in arithmetic , wholly superseding the former method of setting sums in cyphering books , Pf using books , as Walkingharoe ' s § r DUwortfrV Assistant for the four firSit rules ; : —a plan whereby arxy child who can read , may teach'arithmetic with the utmost certajrity *
5 . The expense of education is reduced to a very trifling sum . Schools for three hundred children inay be supported at the rate of
seven shillings per annum for ea ^ ch child ari d for a greater number of children , it may be reduced to four shillings per annum for each child .
And , lastly , while Joseph Lancaster is anxious to lay the foundation of religious and nxorai principles in the youthful mind , he stiidiously avoids introducing controverted theological points ,
and iri short , every thing which is peculiar to any sect or party The Holy Scriptures is the only religious book taught in the school , -r-fpr here , as Sir , W . Jones , ex *
presses it ^ we have c purer morality than can be collected from any other bqoJ £ in any language ; ' * or , a ^ Locke has well observed , a volume which has . God for its
author , salvation for its end and truth , without any mixture of error , for its subject . " By pro ,. ceeding upon this , broad aod
general basis , there is nothing repulsive to the feelings of any particular sect , but the doors of his schools are thrown open to receive the whole community .
The good which must arise from the extension of these elementary schools , cannot be calculated : their influence upon the , morals and conduct of the lower orders of society has already been expe *
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Lancaster * s Plan of Education : 109 ? . ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/5/
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