Joseph Lancaster
Joseph Lancaster
Joseph Lancasterwas an English Quaker and public education innovator...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth25 November 1778
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IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
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May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
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A merchant may extend his dealings, a tradesman may increase his customers, but the teacher's income depends solely upon the number of his scholars.
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A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
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In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.
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The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.
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All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
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We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
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Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
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Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
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The rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.
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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
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A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
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The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.