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I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the educati

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive. – Joseph Lancaster

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A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. – Joseph Lancaster

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The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education. – Joseph Lancaster

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May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. – Joseph Lancaster

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