Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Edward and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Miscellanies, Vol. 3 To propose the repeal of the Education Act of 1870 would be like proposing the repeal of the Gregorian Calendar. We cannot go back twelve days behind the rest of the world. The Act of 1870 was necessary. The population had outgrown all existing means of education. The children uneducated counted by hundreds of thousands, perhaps by millions. The standard of education was on a low level. England was behind both Germany and France in the diffusion of intellectual culture, at least among the lower and middle classes of the people. The principles embodied in the Act of 1870 cannot be rescinded; they ought rather to be carried out to their full and complete application. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.