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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine
The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine Author:Unknown Author 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: irucation. OUGHT EDUCATION TO BE SETTLED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE LEAGUE OR THE UNION ? "The Education movement is going forward with a rapidity which just... more »ifies the most sanguine hopes ; and the two great principles of the league that Education should be compulsory, and that State Education should be undenominational are striking root deeply into the mind of the nation. Having held the first opinion for many years, and the last always, I heartily rejoice at the progress both are making towards general recognition.". s. arm. THE LEAGUE. I. The principles of the National Education League are plain, simple, and thoroughgoing. The object is to agitate for " the establishment of a system which shall secure the education of every child in the country ;" and the means are briefly these : that local authorities shall be compelled by Law to provide sufficient school accommodation for every child in each district ; that the founding and maintaining of the said schools shall be provided for by local rates, supplemented by Government grants ; that these schools shall be managed by the local authorities, and be under Government inspection be unsectarian be free to all and children may be compelled, if necessary, to attend them. This scheme is practical, straightforward, and adapted to the times. The League asserts that education is as necessary to the proper vitality of man as food is. It affirms that here and there education may be had if it be taken out of a sectarian feeder ; but in almost all cases it cannot now be had apart from the sectarian condiment. The League is of opinion that education pure and simple may be provided with as little sectarianism in it as there is sectarianism in a soup-kitchen or an hospital. Besides, it sees that sectarianism works fitfull...« less