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to establish an extensive model school , to be called the West London Lancastrian School , for the purpose of giving a more extended and useful education to the children of the poorer classes ; and it was determined that of religious books the Bible alone , without note or comment , should be read in the
projected schools . The arrangements were nearly completed , when some of the managers resolved that no book but the Bible should be used , and no lessons read but those selected from it : — " This was resisted as incompatible with the principle on which the schools were founded ; the fanatics introduced other persons of principles similar to their own , and
the whole scheme was destroyed . These men said , they would much rather destroy the undertaking than permit any but Bible lessons ; and they did so . We had a magnificent prospect before us ; I believe we should have accomplished it completely , if it had been allowed to go on , and before this time have instructed all the children in the metropolis . " Mr . Place objects to schoolmasters , under a system of national instruction , having any thing to do with religion ; for he thinks
that reading , writing , and arithmetic have no more to do with religion than shoe-making has ; he considers that three afternoons a week might be devoted to the religious instruction of the children at the schools , by the clergy or other persons of the various sects ; so that children of every denomination might be educated in harmony by the same schoolmaster , in the ordinary branches of instruction .
The reverend Dr . Bryce , Principal of the academy at Belfast , one of the most celebrated of our educational establishments , considers that institutions for the instruction of teachers in the art of teaching , are absolutely necessary , being , in point of time , of the most pressing importance ; and he gives much interesting
information on the subject . He relates in detail the remarkable effects of education on the provident habits and worldly advancement of the working classes ; and scouts the notion that too much knowledge can be given to the people . He maintains that a teacher for the poor requires more professional
skill , though he may do with less learning , than one for the rich ; and that it would be not more absurd to establish a dispensary , and give it in charge of a weaver or cobler out of employ , than to establish a school under a master ignorant of human nature , and of the management of the human mind . He * ' conceives it is quite impossible to give religious education without intellectual education . You cannot get at the
conscience , which the doctrines of religion address , in any other way than through the understanding- ; and all attempts to do bo nave completely failed ; they have produced a spurious sort of religion , — superstition in one case , and enthusiasm in another /* In a national system of education , h « would le * r «
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Education Report . 75
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 75., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/11/
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