3 December 2020 Joseph Lancaster Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
3 December 2020 Joseph Lancaster I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.
3 December 2020 Joseph Lancaster A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
3 December 2020 Joseph Lancaster The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
3 December 2020 Joseph Lancaster All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
3 December 2020 Joseph Lancaster THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.
3 December 2020 Joseph Lancaster The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
