Prize Essay on Adult Education and how to promote it

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Sampson Low & Company, 1861 - 84 Seiten
 

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Seite 73 - Train up thy children, England, in the ways Of righteousness, and feed them with the bread Of wholesome doctrine. Where hast thou thy mines But in their industry ? Thy bulwarks where, but in their breasts...
Seite 76 - Instead of such an assistant, the managers of anv school under inspection may organize an industrial class, to meet in the afternoon under a gardener, superior labourer, or other person competent to instruct the class in the manual work selected ; while the girls and younger boys are at the same time employed in school under a mistress competent to teach sewing and the elements of reading and writing. (3.) If there be not more than two pupil-teachers in the school, and if the number of scholars in...
Seite 3 - HACKNEYED in business, wearied at that oar, Which thousands, once fast chained to, quit no more, But which, when life at ebb runs weak and low, All wish, or seem to wish, they could forego ; The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade, Pants for the refuge of some rural shade...
Seite 75 - That every such assistant shall be taken to be equivalent to two apprenticed pupil teachers in reckoning the number of such apprentices to be maintained at the public expense in any school. 5. That every assistant produce the same annual certificates as are required of apprentices from the managers and principal teacher of the school, and be favourably reported of by Her Majesty's Inspector as to attainments and practical skill. When the foregoing conditions are fulfilled, their Lordships...
Seite 83 - Examinations without a Certificate from his Local Board, that he has satisfactorily " passed " its Previous Examination (a) in the elementary subjects specified in par.
Seite 38 - Each member of the committee must have attained the age of twenty-one years, and have been a subscriber at least six months previously.
Seite 81 - They were established to encourage, test, attest, and reward efforts made for self-improvement, by adult members and students of the Mechanics' Institutions, Athenseums, People's Colleges, Village Classes, and other Educational Bodies of the like character, in Union with the Society of Arts. Such members and students are commonly mechanics, artisans, labourers, clerks, tradesmen, and farmers, not in a large way of business, apprentices, sons and daughters of tradesmen and farmers, assistants in shops,...
Seite 77 - The greater part of the burden is heaped upon the shoulders of those who are least able to bear it.
Seite 81 - Programmes containing the fullest information may be obtained gratis, on application to the Secretary of the Society of Arts, Adelphi, London, WC earnings may be roughly stated at from 4s.

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