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    There are still in existence , in this water-walled portion of the world called England , a large class of good easy people of primitive notions , prone to think that in the word education , is

    summed up only the three several acquirements of reading , writing , and arithmetic . Such of them as may have fallen into this error through ignorance only , and not through prejudice , and who may be willing to extend the sphere of their knowledge , and thus get rid of their errors , cannot do better than read carefully the article entitled , c National Education , ' in the

    Westminster Review for April last . Whoever the author may be , he thoroughly understands his subject ; and has given a clear and lucid outline of what education should be , in order to develops all the faculties which are commonly resident in human beings , though not apparent from want of cultivation . The paper in question is , indeed , thou gh a brief , a masterly exposition of the

    subject . It is precisely the kind of paper which should be published for distribution as a pamphlet , in a cheap form ; and is calculated to work as much good upon people ' s minds , as the innumerable corn law tracts emanating from the same source have wrought , and will continue to work , for the benefit of their

    bodies . The very shallowest capacity can scarcely fail to comprehend it ; and minds of the highest class cannot avoid reaping instruction from it . As before stated , it is merely an outline of what education should be in the enlarged sense of the word . Those who wish to go into the details , should procure the ' Report of M . Cousin , on the state of Public Instruction in Prussia , '

    translated by Mrs . Austin ; which , though principally relating to the instruction of the mind apart from the body ; at least , that portion before us ; and therefore defective , inasmuch as the communion between mind and matter is not sufficiently kept up ; is still an admirable sample of the mode in which public instruction may be administered for the due cultivation of all the

    qualities , both bodily and mental . The work has been already reviewed in our pages ; the purpose of the writer of this paper is to make a few remarks on the translator ' s preface '; which , though an evidence of the hi ghest and purest intentions , contains several sentences , likely to make an unfavourable impression on the

    mass of the working classes , to whom the work will be of the greatest utility ; and more especially , as they are predisposed to look with mistrust upon every thing emanating from a country whose government is despotic , and from which they cannot expect any public measure to result solely for the advantage of the people , apart from the sinister interest of the rulers . That the Prussian government , or any despotic government , may work for the good of the people , is not disputed , but it is quite certain that

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    ON THE OBJECTS OF POPULAR EDUCATION .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 718, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/44/