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AN impression seems to prevail that only those persons should be placed on the Metropolitan School Board who are already acquainted with the details of education. Against this principle we protest. We Lope the new schools will be great improvements upon those which already exist. When we are told by the Bishop of Manchester that a third of these schools only are efficient, that a third are inefficient, and that a third are wholly useless, if not pernicious, it is high time that the whole system should be looked into by those who will come fresh to the inquiry, unencumbered with the ideas that have led to such disastrous results. We think, then, the public should look to that instructed body of men who are known as cultivators of science to represent them on the London School Board. Already we are glad to see signs that the class of persons we have named have found favour in the eyes of London electors. The selection of Professor Huxley and Dr. Elizabeth Garrett, as candidates for Marylebone, is highly creditable to that district of the metropolis; but their hands must be upheld by a very much larger number of candidates, if common sense and intelligence are to prevail at the councils of the School Board.
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LANKESTER, E. The Representation of Science at the School Board. Nature 2, 509–510 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002509a0
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