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r ienced ; and we may entertain more than a hope , that they will ; not fail to diminish the number of crimes , cherish and promote virtuous dispositions among the great '
mass ot the people , and thus most materially contribute to the happiness and security of . the state . In some places where J . Lancaster has established schools , by the committees dividing the children
into different bodies , and conducting them to the several places for worship , hundreds of
children are taken in an orderly manner to attend divine service , who formerly profaned the Lord ' s day by idle and riotous conduct in the streets .
In the Borough school alone , 4000 ' children- have been educated , whose parents were © f the poorest description ; and hitherto no instance has been noticed of
any one of these being charged with a . criminal offence in any court of justice . Jn this school the progress of the children in
learning is rapid . It is no uncommon thing for one or two hundred boys to obtain tickets of commendation daily , and more than one hundred to have rewards
for merit in the course of a single week . The improvement in morals , and the habits of order among the children who are educated on this system , in town or country , is of the most gratifyiii 2 nature .
At Bristol , a school for 300 children has been opened , and the order is so complete , that a boy of thirteen can keep school as well as the master . At its
commencement , proianeness was so common among the children , that it was not unusual for 70 or SO to be found swearing in the
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school-room in the course of a single week ; such instances now rarely occur . A lad , who orily qight months ago could neither write nor cypher , is now head
mopressed their satisfaction . This school was organised by a young man , not nineteen years of age , an - apprentice to Joseph Lancaster .
nitar of the school , having obtained his learning in the act of teaching ' others . The general improvement of the children is obvious and striking ; and many of the parents have voluntarily
ex-In the town of Swansea is a school , in which 570 children are now educating . It is conducted by an excellent young man , who had his education in the school at the Borough Road , and acted as one of J . Lancaster ' s earliest
monitors . This school is in high order , and the accounts of the improvements of the scholars very satisfactory .
At the request of a number of gentlemen , belonging to the university of Cambridge , and by permission of the vice-chancellor , Joseph Lancaster explained the principles of his plan of education in a public lecture in the
townball of that place , and a school was formed with the particular sanction and support of gentlemen of the first respectability in the university , who constituted themselves a committee for its management . The school consists of
about 230 boys , and although it has not been opened above six months , the improvement of the children is very considerable . At Canterbury , a royal free school has also been established , with the sanction of the mayor , the members in parliament for the
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110 Lancaster ' s Plan of Education ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 110, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/6/
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