Report of the Commissioners ...G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1868 - Education |
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abeyance appear appointed arithmetic Assistant Commissioners better boarders boarding schools Bryce Cambridge Cathedral character Charity Commission Cheltenham College Christ's Hospital Church Church of England Classical 2nd classical schools Classification according College Court of Chancery Day Scholars day schools district division endowed schools ENDOWMENTS FOR GRAMMAR England English established examination Fearon fees Fitch foundation foundationers Founder's deed Free Grammar School Free School French Giffard girls give given Governors Grammar School Greek head master House M.A. inhabitants large number Latin learning Letters Patent lower Marlborough College master and usher mathematics ment middle class Mixed Elementary natural science Non-cl number of boys number of scholars Oxford parents parish poor population present private schools proprietary schools purpose Report scheme schoolmaster second grade SECONDARY SCHOOLS Semi-cl Situation of School subjects taught teachers teaching third grade tion total number TOWNS IN CENSUS trustees University upper youth
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Page v - Presents will and ordain that this Our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, Our said Commissioners, or any three or more of you, may from time to time proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment : And...
Page 68 - It is to tempt candidates to no special preparation and effort, but to be such as ' a scholar of fair ability and proper diligence may at the end of his school course come to with a quiet mind, and without a painful preparatory effort tending to relaxation and torpor as soon as the effort is over.
Page 549 - It is needless to observe that the same complaints apply to a great extent to boys' education. But on the whole the evidence is clear that, not as they might be but as they are, the girls' schools are inferior in this view to the boys
Page v - ... or more of you, such Persons as you shall judge necessary by whom you may be the better informed of the truth in the premises, and to inquire of the premises, and every part thereof, by all other lawful...
Page 122 - ... giveth his gifts both of learning, and other perfections in all sciences, unto all kinds and states of people indifferently.
Page 68 - ... common practice to establish Vorschulen, or preparatory schools, as in France, to be appendages of the several higher schools, to receive little boys without the previous examination in reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, and Scripture history, which the higher school imposes, and to pass them on in their tenth year, duly prepared, into the higher school.
Page v - And for the better discovery of the truth in the premises, We do, by these presents, give and grant to you, or any...
Page iv - To inquire into the Present State of Popular Education in England, and to consider and report what measures, if any, are required for the Extension of sound and cheap Elementary Instruction to all Classes of the People.
Page vi - Murray, esquire, barrister-at-law, to be Secretary to this Our Commission, and to attend you, whose services and assistance We require you to use from time to time as occasion shall render necessary.
Page 22 - There is nothing so opposed to true cultivation, nothing so unreasonable, as excessive narrowness of mind ; and nothing contributes to remove this narrowness so much as that clear understanding of language which lays open the thoughts of others to ready appreciation. Nor is equal clearness of thought to be obtained in any other way. Clearness of thought is bound up with clearness of language, and the one is impossible without the other. When the study of language can be followed by that of literature,...