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he shows at great length why the sexes ought to be educated together till the age of fourteen : — * Their separation is the result of a mistaken notion that they cannot he safely together . . . In an improved education their ptttsuiu tend to i top rove them morally , and to prevent all the coo sequencer that would be felt under a more ignorant & > stem of educating tinjtn in the same school , as has been proved in the Circus Place School * i «
Edinburgh , in the Lancasterian School , Mr . Wood ' s School , # }) d , \ the Model Infant School ... I should therefore never think of gquarating them . The minds of the one sex are like the minds o ^ the other ; they are both entitled to an education of useful knowledge , of elementary science . . . the two sexes will stimulate each other In the best possible way to exertion ; and , under the eye and guidance of their teachers , employed as they are , there cannot arise any eVH from the intimacy . . . The effects of proper elementaty education will be such as to refine both sexes to a degree we have never seen ,
certainly , in the lower ranks , or in any rank of life . Wbat I call refinement , is another word for the practical exercise of the superior moral faculties . It is the very essence of a well regulated education to purify and exalt those feelings which the intercourse of the sex ^ p cajls forth . There would be a great diminution of the impurity of tnc ^ gjit ,
which ia too much now the nature of that intercourse . The sexes can never be more safely together than under the same roof ari < fr . u ' nqtet the same instructors ; they are put under the same roof when the y are under the instruction of their religious teachers , in churches aftid
chapels ; and I should expect that their being educated together would be attended with all the advantages which I have specified , and with no evils whatever . '—pp . 129 , 130 . Mr . Simpson contends , that secular instruction and religion , should not be mixed , in proof of which he quotes Mel&hcthdn , Cud worth , Paley , and others ; he would not permit the secular teacher to be a clergyman , or of any other profession or ti ^ de ; nor would he allow him in any way to interfere in religion ;
which should be the exclusive province of the religious instructors , who should have separate hours for teaching' the children of the different sects . It is greatly to be regretted , that extracts and digests of the most valuable parliamentary papers ( such as that which we have been noticing ) should not be provided for the public in some
cheap and accessible form . The price and scarcity of most of the parliamentary papers is a great bar to their efficiency , —ilot to mention their bulk ; for the outside of a large folio is all that ordinary mortals can be induced to look at .
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Education-Report . 77
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/13/
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