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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Elementary Education Acts, 1870-1891: With the Acts in an Appendix T is a trite but true observation that the history of public Elementary Education in England is an illus tration of the law which characterises the growth of so many of our national institutions, in that it originated in the convictions and efforts of individuals or private bodies, and only when it appeared to have outgrown the means or the powers of the original promoters, did the State step in to gather up their work and place it on the basis of a national institution. At the beginning of the present century an impulse was given to popular education by the formation of two great educational societies - the British and Foreign Schools Society in 1808, and the National Society in 1811, both supported by voluntary contributions. Previous to 1811 the work of furthering Elementary Education had been undertaken by a sub-committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Public attention began thenceforth to be more and more directed to the subject. In 1816 a committee of the House of Commons, of which Mr. (afterwards Lord) Brougham was chairman, re ported that they had found reason to conclude that a very large number of poor children were wholly without the means of instruction. One of the reports of this committee contains the first public assertion of the prin ciple that the education of the people is a matter in which the State has a vital concern. 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.

Excerpt from The Elementary Education Act, 1870: With Introduction, Notes, and Index, Appendix Containing the Incorporated Statutes The Elementary Education Act, 1870, is a statute which is calculated, more than any other of recent times to elevate the masses of the people; and is the result of many years agitation by the various religious denominations and political parties in the State. The object which it will accomplish may be stated in a very few words. It will place an elementary school wherever there is a child to be taught, whether of rich or poor parents: and it will compel every parent and guardian of a child to have it taught, at least, the rudiments of education, and that without reference to any religious creed or persuasion. The Editor, at the request of the Publishers, has prepared the present work, and trusts that it Will be found to be a useful and practical guide to all those who may be called upon officially or otherwise to bring the Act into operation. In the Appendix will be found all the Incorporated Acts, besides other useful information. 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.