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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and $rimaig (Station in gasl and Among the million readers of the Cornliill Magazine, a very small minority can boast of having received their education at Eton, or at any other of our great public schools; and though the rest cannot but feel an interest in whatever may concern these aristocratic seminaries, regret for their shortcomings or admiration of what is excellent in them, still their own humble school, what it was when they were boys, and what it is, and is becoming, now they are men, may fairly claim to hold a higher place in their regard. But indeed, to all thinking men, high and low, the question as to how the people, the masses, or by what other name it pleases us to call them, are taught in these lands, is a paramount question, and touches us, our interests, and our future national history, in more points than many of us suspect. No doubt it is become something of a bore to many whose daily longing is for some new thing; and to many others it is worse than a bore, a thing of dread, portending changes of which they are unable to see either the nature or the issue. Wearisome or ominous, however, the question returns upon us with an importunity not to be gainsayed; for it concerns a movement which has begun, has gathered, and is gathering strength, and which we may control, but can in nowise stem or stop. It has been noticed that the simplest and best English is spoken by the highest and the lowest classes in England, the broad mass between indulging in an extremely fine and vulgar style of speech. It is a distinct, but significant fact, that at this present time, these two classes, so far removed, are those which receive the best and most thorough education, each according to its need and opportunity. The education of the children of all between the labouring an...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217329088 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021732908X |
| Weight | 2.23 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.54 In |
| List Price | $43.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 700 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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