Of the Education of the Poor; Being the First Part of a Digest of the Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1809 Excerpt: ... No. XXVII. PROPOSED INQUIRY AS TO SCHOOLS. In order to the extension of a general system of religious and moral education among the poor, it is submitted that a previous Inquiry into the present state of charity and other schools will be requisite, in order to ascertain, 1. The places in which those schools are entirely adequate to the object; S. The places where a greater extension of their benefits is wanted, and such extension is practicable; and 3. Those where new schools for the poor are necessary or expedient. For this purpose it is proposed, that (with exception of the great classical schools, and of private seminaries receiving no support from charitable foundation, public aid, or private subscription) a parliamentary return be made from all the charity schools + in the kingdom, under the following heads: Reports, Appendix to Vol. IV. t This would make a valuable supplement to the returw very recently made under Mr. Rose's Act, 43d George III. 1. The nature and amount of their respeo tive income, annual or contingent, and arising from fines or otherwise, for five years last past. 2. The average number of children educated in each of the said schools during the five last years; specifying the number of those children which have been clothed, and those which have been not only clothed but boarded. 3. The dates of the respective foundations of such schools; and by whom, or in what manner, they were established. / 4. The will, deed, or other regulation, by--We find by those returns, comprising very nearly the whole of England and Wales, that the number of children (out of the workhouse) between five years and fourteen years of age, who have been the subject of parish relief, is 181,794; whereas the number of those, who have had the benefit of schools ...