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74 Education Report.
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Mr . Revans , the secretary to the Poor Inquiry Commission in Ireland , and formerly secretary to the English Commission , was examined respecting the mode adopted by the English and Irish Commission , to procure minute and correct information of the state of the people , as connected with , the Poor Laws , with the view to the employment of the best machinery for an inquiry respecting education .
The Rev . J . Blackburn has much acquaintance with the poorest districts of London , of whicli he gives a painful account : he considers that two-thirds of the lowest class of London children are without the means of learning to read , and that ragged children will not go to a school with those who are better dresaed . He is for using no book but the Bible ; he would make it the universal class-book , and teach language , history , and geography , entirely by it . He states that the elder boys cannot be kept at the Sunday schools , because they are not interested in what is taught . He thinks that government should not take the education of the country out of its present hands ; but does not think that tlie voluntary efforts of the public can do much more than has been done .
The honourable and reverend Mr . Noel gives much the same sort of evidence as Mr . Blackburn . He thinks that the present system of educating the country by voluntary contributions should not be disturbed , though it is quite inadequate ; that public education should be placed chiefly under the clergy , and that government should supply funds more freely . He would teach all that can be taught , and would extend the range of education considerably . There is so much apathy on the part of uneducated parents , that they will not seek instruction for their children ; it must be brought to their doors .
Mr . Francis Place gives much interesting information respecting the various changes that have taken place in the habits of the middle and poorer classes of London during the last fifty years . When Lancaster first commenced his schools , there was nothing to be found in London but a few charity schools , which taught poor children next to nothing , and nothing likely
to be useful to them . Lancaster ' s schools being set up by the Dissenters , were attacked by most of the clergy as destructive of religion , though they taught nothing else , and would not permit a lesson to be read unless it was extracted from the Bible . Their extracts were so wretchedl y made , as to be very generall y sad nonsense . Mr . Place thereupon prepared a number of lessons upon a variety of useful and interesting
subject * iii 1815 ; but they were rejected , because they were not taken from the Scriptures . Ue considers botli the National and the Ltuicagterian , or British and Foreign Schools ,
to be very defective ; though much valuable knowledge might be given by them at very little expense . In lfclii , he attempted
74 Education Report.
74 Education Report .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/10/
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