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^ I&O ^ Whi cK it i * certatp ' ji m ^? vf ^^ t 1 ^ ^| teriy upftt . to teacli f tie itta ? li&Ve tfiifr , ^ nd yet wa £ t thp ^ d ^^ Wp ^ f t it ; but to expect any generally applicable test p ^ tte fetter
ifcttst be Vain mdeed , until regular instruction ifl . jtis jprflyid £ df ; it i ^ sufficiently notorious that die art of teswliing . c ^ a barsly be said to exi 6 t as an art in this country , s . . ; > ,: , . - j * i the lowest class of schools the apathy of parents , and the pdVferty of their means render improvement hopeless , except From above them ; but in the schools of the raiddle ola 3 &e
sufficient interest is felt , and sufficient competition exists , to produce fetter results if well directed ; at present , mafprtiv tiat ^ ly , this competition displays itself far pi ore frequently . \ a ttfe Hiere accidents of education , in silly conventional distino ti < fts , in the reduction of terms and the like > tfy ajQ i « endea vours to improve the quality of the education a ^ oxd ^ d ^ pnd
i ^ fhy is this ? Is it not that the former are . sQ rfp ^ chr ^ iore tikdil y apprehended than the latter ? Everybody can w ^ 4 ^ ivstand the diflfetence between 60 / . and 70 / . a jrea ^ J th § f 1 ' 4 i ^ fetence between a bad school and a better * a , n ^ Q ^ wwr e difficult ; it depends mainly on the qualifications of the , te ^ ch er ^ and q f these it can only be said that ^ they axe subniitiedi to in if
^ thtitk I a / n warranted concluding that rneau ^ were affordt&d to tb ^ public * by yvhich they could distinguish , at least Bpto \ a cfcftjd ^ i jk > ipt r between qualified arid unqualified teachers , a Vfei 7 iinp ^ Tti ^ it ^ Atep would be attained towards the improvement ^ genital {> e 4 ucation . I proceed to inquiry whether tited&jfticaTdfyrei * could be made to afford sucfr a tqsti 1 v Ifit ^'^ eipeni ^ ered that at this time degrees jar ^ oaiy tQ h& obtained ' m % h& t ^ o ancient Universities , upder their iwuUifali ^ Us t ^ ritt ^ nB , direct and indirect , it becomes evident tfeat to speak or them as now affording any suoh t ^ tnWfMtfc ^ t teattteii tvotfld be visionary in tKe extreme , for of tlmt test it ie ati ftidispensable condition that it be generally applicable * Btit inppo ^ e academical degrees were , by some new arJtangerf m ^ ht , ^ o become accessible to all who have really ' made the ri € Mntiientd the respective degrees professedly repre&eirt—a » d the higher the scaje required the better , so thai it be
wellcnoBen;— -in oilier words , suppose . such , degrees were to'rdpres&ftt c « TOnb ' definite , aUa » wne « jt ^ and capacities only , and wece " i ] W lfa 4 igfr W to , eicpre 4 » > hes ^ ttogetbec wi | h something « « lse < to Wit ^ a ^ ^^^ eJf ^ fou ^^ - ^ h ^/ a ^ iUtiy tft , i ^» r , * bp -ftupepae ^ ^^ SlS / $ 1 .-VfS ^ W * ?^ RWfcW »* ir ; . « poit , n » d . » o , - <> n ; 'W ^ MmMrWiti ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 672, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/20/
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