Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memorandum on Popular Education
Henceforth the Education Department directly encouraged the introduction of a more adequate staff of more 811111111 teachers. It made the schools the scenes of the first five years of the teacher's training. It selected from' the classes immediately in contact with the people, and generally from children of the manual-labour class, their future instructors ensurin g an identity of interest and harmonious sympathies. It confided the completion of their training to the religious com munichs, who founded numerous colleges in which the approved candidates spent two years. It strove to employ the energy of religious zeal, by liberal encouragement from the Parliamentary Grant, in rearing and training a body of highly instructed teachers, who throughout their experience should breathe the air of the school and be in contact with the humblest classes. The extension of popular education would thus proceed part? Passu with its improvement. A few years would prove how far the voluntary initiative would suffice, with the aid of the Govern ment, to reach the degraded classes of the great cities and the apathetic parishes of remote rural districts. The Department would ascertain whether any other expedient was necessary to rescue children who were doomed to ignorance by the poverty or vices of their parents in cities, or by their apathy and helpless: ness in farming districts.
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