Excerpt from The English Journal of Education, 1857, Vol. 11: Specially Designed as a Medium of Correspondence Among the Heads of Training Colleges, Parochial Clergymen, and All Promoters of Sound Education, Parents, Sponsors, Schoolmasters, Pupil Teachers, Sunday School Teachers, Etc As a first consequence of this principle, all schools, from the highest to the lowest, are public establishments, supported, if necessary, and superintended; the teachers trained, nominated, and controlled by government; and the more general regulations are the same all over the country. Secondly, the means of acquiring the necessary knowledge suitable to the different stations in life are placed within the reach of every one. Colleges and commercial schools are in suflicient number, and at convenient distances at least one elementary or national school is to be found in every parish there the poor are received with the wealthy either gratuitously or at reduced terms. But, on the other hand, there is also obligation for parents to have their children instructed during a certain period; from, the age of six to twelve or thirteen children are bound to attend school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.