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    346 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    Transactions Of The National Association...

    pass mistresses Committee the examinations ; of thirt the y Privy -six are Council of under Her , Maj and tlie est in inspection y all 's In _students spector of are s the , and prepared Education to them take to

    master have charge generall s of or elementary mistresses y passed schools bound a five year . during The s' apprenticeshi young that time peop to p le Under assist who enter certificated in the

    discharge of school duties , ; have undergone a series of examinations in the several subjects of ordinary education successfully , thus

    obtaining entitled to admittance board and to residence the Training in tlie College College as free Queen of expense 's Scholar for s a ,

    period of not less than one and not more than four years . A systematic course of instruction in the theory and practice of education ,

    lectures employment are in the the means practising there school used , to criti fit cism them lessons for their , and future illustrative task .

    At the end , of this course , supposing that the candidate has passed the arlexaminationhe or she Is entitled to a certificate of merit ,

    yey , ber and of qualified certificated to take teachers charge now of an emp in loyed spected in school schools . under The total inspe num ction

    is above six thousand ; three thousand students are now training at the thirty-six colleges under inspection ; and though there is thus

    an annual supply of fifteen hundred trained teachers , it has been computed that the educational requirements of the country will not

    be met for sixteen years . Mr . Fitch calls attention to the fact that this training is entirely confined to the teachers of elementary schools

    for training the poor 1 . . Great The acquirements business of education and high requires intellectual destitute specific power of professional skill are often and of little valuebecause their are

    knowledge of method , . The dat possessors a on which the principles of education rest are sufficientladvanced to claim for it the name of a science ,

    and demand scientific y treatment ; and some means should be devised by which the business of teaching and training our youth should

    vated receive 1 to all the the rank aid of which a liberal scientific profession method , b can y securing give , should to all be those eleengaged in it training specially adapted to the needs of their work .

    "We think attention to such facts and arguments as these cannot be too earnestlenforced .

    One of the y loading features of this department is the space devoted to Adult Education , chiefly through Mechanics' Institutes , which in

    Yorkshire have been more successful , because more single in their aims than elsewhere . The question of Factory Education is less fully

    discussed than might have been expected in a factory district such as Bradford . Bat it is evident that in that districtas in others , the

    education clauses of the Factory Acts have given , satisfaction to all concerned . Mr . E . D . Willss , in a paper on tlio subject , recommends

    the extension of the principle of education as a condition of juvenile labor , to _tlio colliery , milling , and agricultural districts , and to all

    manufactories in large towns where children are employed .

    346 Notices Of Books.

    346 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/58/