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LONDON:

PRINTED BY W. WILFRED HEAD, VICTORIA PRESS, 11, 12, & 13, harp Alley,

FARRINGDON STREET, E.C.

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LONDON:

PRINTED BY W. WILFRED HEAD, VICTORIA PRESS, 11, 12, & 13, HARP ALLEY,

FARRINGDON STREET, E.C.

SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I.-OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS AND OF SOCIETY FOR THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF CHILDREN.

Progressive development the order of Providence, 9-Human motive power, its capacity for reversing and impeding as well as of accelerating progress, 10-The indelible prints of human action on the path it travels in, 10-11-The responsibility of human action, 11-Child-mind as a domain of human power and responsibility, 11-12-Characteristics of the child-mind as a passive germ of latent and irrepressible force, 8-13-The power of habit, 13-15— Illustrations of neglected training, 15-17-Education and training of children necessary to their personal happiness, 18-Parents apt to overlook training, 19-Education and training necessary to the welfare of society and to personal success in life, 20,

CHAPTER II.-THE EVIDENCES OF DEFICIENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE COUNTRY.

Ignorance allied to want, the reasons of this, 21-22-The fallacious excuses for pauperism and crime of an over-stocked labour-market, and of the introduction of machinery, 22-24Crime and pauperism as tests of deficient education and training; the Registrar-General's test of the marriage register, 24-Judicial statistics, 25-26-The census tables of occupations, which show that paupers are almost universally derived from the least educated classes, 26-27-The Poor-Law Reports, which indicate that 1-20th part of the whole community is in a state of extreme want, ignorance, or crime, 27-28-Evidence from reliable witnesses of the extent and degree of the destitution and misery of the country, 28-31-Vagrants, 31-The condition of the poor in the country not better than in the towns, 32-34-Cattle sheds, and human sheds, 34-35-The accompaniments of poverty, typhus fever, 35-Drunkenness, 35-Deficient food, 36-38-Pauper children, the number of, in the metropolis, 38-41; the number in ragged-schools, 41Condition of, in rural and town districts and in schools, 42-46— Reflections on the sad state of things disclosed, 46-47.

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