Excerpt from Letter to a Member of Parliament on National Education

Sir,

The very moderate degree of interest you appear to take in the most momentous question which can occupy the thoughts of a statesman or of a man - the question how the great body of the people is to be trained in early years to usefulness here and happiness hereafter - must have arisen from imperfect acquaintance with the peculiar and critical circumstances in which that great question stands at present throughout England and Wales. You seem to overlook the fact, that this country, as regards Education, is now in a transition state. The gross ignorance which formerly prevailed among the mass of our population is now beginning partially to be dispelled. The example of other nations, in which great progress in elementary instruction has been made, though not always in a right direction, invites our imitation. A general impression prevails that the people must be educated; and the only point still undecided is, how that education shall be given.

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