The Revised Code: A Letter to a Friend, Suggested by the Pamphlets of the Rev. C. J. Vaughan, D.d., Vicar of Doncaster, and the Rev. J. Fraser, Rector of Upton - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1862. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... "employed--(1) bark-peeling; (2) hay; (3) corn; " (4) hops; (5) potatoes; (6) apples; (7) acorns. " If we add to these bird-scaring in autumn and " spring, potato-setting, hop-tying, and the inci" dental duties (not peculiar however to an agri" cultural district) of baby-nursing and errand" going, and make a fair allowance for sickness " and weather, some estimate may be formed of the " difficulties through which the education of the " children of the rural poor has to force its way l." Mr. Hedley says, " In many schools the attendance " in summer is only /m//"what it is in winter. The " schools which I visited in October and November " were considerably thinner than they would have " been in January and February. I was repeatedly " told that children above the age of eight are " away from school for entire intervals varying " from four to eight months in the year, and that " those above ten or eleven are frequently only to " be found in the school for a few weeks in winter. " The general complaint is, that there is hardly " such a thing as progress "in the education of " children above eight years of age. Teachers can " usually do no more than bring the elder children " up again each winter to the point which they had " reached before2." I need not multiply evidence on this point, and will therefore only add one more extract;--Mr. Hare says, " During the Crimean war, when the " Baltic trade was suspended, no fewer than 356 " children entered and left one school (in Hull) 1 Keport, p. 27. 2 Beport, p. 145. " within the year. The fishermen regularly take " away their children during the season; and from " April to November the gardens, brickyards, and " roperies draw off a considerable number of boys V In speaking of Ipswich, and of the causes which render some p...

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