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the religious instruction to the inhabitants of each locality , without making too precise regulations , which he considers wauUl fee a fruitful source of dissension . In one locality he thinks itlte sects might agree in one system of religious
instruction ; in another place they might not agree , and would harfc two sehools , if they could afford to quarrel and separate ; if they could not afford to do this , they would probably agree to le ^ LVe out religious instruction from the general school , and communicate it in some other mode .
Th ^ evidence Mr . Jaines Simpson ( which was taken before the Irish Education Committee ) occupies as much spftce as the whole of the former evidence put together , and embraces every part of the subject . He has paid great attention and used great exertions for many years in the cause of popular education ; and almost all his views appear to us to
be rational and benevolent in the highest degree . We therefore regret that our limited space prevents us from offering erfcfl an outline of them . His facts and arguments against abandoning the education of the country to the voluntary sj ^ etn , that is , to chance , are very powerful ; education , he cojatends , must become a national charge , if it is to be universal and efficacious ; the voluntary system has been long
tried , and has failed » ignally : school fees are completely out of tlie question with the poorest classes , and their feelings of degradation at being made objects of charity , ought to be respected and cherished . The Edinburgh Infant School was fou&decl by himself and a few benevolent individuals , in the lowest , neighbourhood in Edinburgh ; a very small weekly fee w # s required , and scarcely a child of the class for whom the school was destined has been found to attend ; but children
of otUer classes come from distances , attracted by the excellence of the tuition and training . The best teachers are also much impeded by the interference of ignorant parents . With regard to the apprehensions of many , that the government of the day might convert a great national system of education into an instrument injurious to the interests or the liberties of the
country , Mr . Simpson replies , that with a vigilant press , and a vigilant legislature , and in each district a voice on the subjeqt , all such apprehensions are completely groundless . We . regret that we cannot detail Mr . Simpson ' s views of Infant Bducation ( which correspond in the main with those of Mr . Wilderspin ) , nor those respecting the more advanced stage of public education , which lie maintains ought to be given to
every member of the community till the age of fourteen . He urges strongly , that all classes of society should , as far as possible , be educated together in the earlier stages of instruction , which is the principle and practice of the hcotch schools , and has bod a moat beneficial effect upon that country ; and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/12/
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