The Crisis of Popular Education: Its Historical, Internal, Statistical, Financial, and Political Relations. Including a Consideration of the "Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education", and of the Educational Controversy, in GeneralJohn Snow, 1847 - 274 páginas |
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accommodation admitted amount annual appears average attendance Baines Baines's British and Foreign Catholics census cent Cheshire Christian Church classes connexion daily scholars day schools day-school deficiency Dissenters efficient elementary England and Wales established estimate existing five and fifteen Foreign School Society grants ignorance increase infant schools inspectors intellectual labour Lancashire less Liverpool Lord Lord John Russell Manchester Manchester Statistical Society manufacturing districts master means ment mind ministers of religion Minutes monitorial system monitors moral National School nearly normal school number of children number of daily number of scholars object opinion parents Parliament parties popular education private scholars private schools proportion Prussia Public Scholars public schools pupil teachers regarded religion religious instruction Report respecting Returns of 1833 Salford school-accommodation school-system schoolmaster secular education Sunday scholars Sunday Schools supposed taught teaching tion total number voluntary principle voluntary societies W. F. Hook whole number
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Página 84 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Página 32 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Página 34 - We hope to excite a feeling of respectability, and a sense of character, by enlarging the capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime.
Página 34 - ... intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Página 214 - Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Página 57 - And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Página 192 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shall have praise of the same: . for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Página 31 - ... his own, so far as he has occasion for it, to furnish for himself and his children the blessings of religious instruction and the elements of knowledge. This celestial, and this earthly light, he is entitled to by the fundamental laws. It is every poor man's undoubted birthright, it is the great blessing which this constitution has secured to him, it is his solace in life, and it may well be his consolation in death, that his country stands 'pledged by the faith which it has plighted to all its...
Página 100 - Ich gestehe frei; die Erinnerung des David Hume war eben dasjenige, was mir vor vielen Jahren zuerst den dogmatischen Schlummer unterbrach und meinen Untersuchungen im Felde der spekulativen Philosophie eine ganz andere Richtung gab.
Página 34 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.