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I WISH to bring before your readers the necessity of immediate action with regard to a branch of education at present not liable to legislative interference. Government is becoming more and more alive to the fact that Education and Science at the present are England's greatest needs; hence the steps taken to extend and enforce primary education. But whilst increased facilities are being afforded to raise the standard of primary education, secondary education is at a stand-still, and upon the whole falls far short of the point it should reach. Thousands of our middle-class schools when compared with what is required, may be placed in the same category as the old dame's school when compared with the modern national school. It requires but the slightest knowledge of the subject to know that our middle-class educational system is as a whole a mere farce, and yet so averse are we to change, that matters are allowed to go on year after year in the same old matter-of-course style without the slightest indication of reform. In order to encroach upon your space as little as possible, I will in a succinct and concise form lay before your readers a scheme which has been lately mooted, which has received the sanction of the highest authorities in these matters, and which is destined ultimately to bring about quite a new system. In speaking thus indiscriminately of our middle-class schools, I do not include many excellent institutions, in which a thorough course of training forms the routine, and which are conducted by gentlemen capable and willing to do the work required. Alas that there should be so few !
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Our Middle-Class Schools. Nature 2, 275 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002275a0
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