The Elementary Education Act, 1870, Popularly Explained

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Excerpt from The Elementary Education Act, 1870, Popularly Explained: Together With the Various Orders in Council Issued by the Education Department During its passage through Parliament, the Elemen tary Education Act, 1870, was the subject of many and fierce controversies. It is now generally ac knowledged to be a large, liberal, and, although last, not least, an eminently practical measure. It may not meet the views of any one sect, party, church, or school, W but it has commended itself to something beyond and above controversial crotchets - the commonsense and the right feeling of the country at large. It is, no doubt, '3 a compromise, but, in England, every great legislative 5 work is, must be, and ought to be, a compromise. '3 That it will not serve the ends of any of those who 4 desire to Work the educational machinery of the g country for their own purposes, is not the least of its merits. Equally comprehensive and elastic, it is Lthoroughly national in nothing more than this - that it places within the reach of the people the education 3' 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.