 However specious in theory the project might be, of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would in effect be found to be prejudicial to their morals and happiness ; it would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead of making...  Adult Education - Page 14by Joseph Kinmont Hart - 1927 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Litchard Kiehle - Education - 1903 - 248 pages
...laboring classes. "Mr. Davies Giddy opposing said: 'Giving education to the laboring classes would be prejudicial to their morals and happiness. It would...Instead of making them good servants in agriculture and the like, to which society had destined them, they would be factious and refractory, they would read... | |
 | Ramsden Balmforth - Great Britain - 1912 - 252 pages
...However specious in theory," said Mr. Giddy, " the project might be, of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would, in effect, be found to be prejudicial to their morals and their happiness; it would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants... | |
 | Jacob Salwyn Schapiro - Europe - 1918 - 878 pages
...objection was raised that it would be prejudicial to the morals and happiness of the working class; that "it would teach them to despise their lot in life...them good servants in agriculture and other laborious employment to which their rank has destined them; instead of teaching them subordination it would render... | |
 | Frederick Ernest Green - Agricultural laborers - 1920 - 418 pages
...was dangerous to educate. " An extension of education," declared the President of a Royal Society, " would teach them to despise their lot in life instead...them good servants in agriculture and other laborious employment to which their rank in society had destined them." The kind of justice meted out to the... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1922 - 470 pages
...specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would be prejudicial to their morals and happiness ; it...instead of making them good servants in agriculture or other laborious employments ; instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them fractious... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1922 - 474 pages
...specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would be prejudicial to their morals and happiness ; it...instead of making them good servants in agriculture or other laborious employments ; instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them fractious... | |
 | J. SALWYN SCHAPIRO - 1923 - 980 pages
...objection was raised that it would be prejudicial to the morals and happiness of the working class; that "it would teach them to despise their lot in life...them good servants in agriculture and other laborious employment to which their rank has destined them; instead of teaching them subordination it would render... | |
 | Basil Alfred Yeaxlee - Church and education - 1925 - 356 pages
...introduced in 1807. " However specious in theory the project might be, of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would in effect be found to...good servants in agriculture, and other laborious employment to which their rank in society had destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination... | |
 | Victor Francis Calverton - English literature - 1926 - 380 pages
...laboring classes of the poor, it would in effect be found to be prejudicial to their morals and their happiness — it would teach them to despise their...lot in life, instead of making them good servants in those laborious employments to which their rank in society had destined them; instead of teaching them... | |
 | Literacy - 1979 - 76 pages
...president of the British Royal Society was arguing that teaching the poor to read and write would "impair their morals and happiness. It would teach them to despise their lot in life. It would enable them to read seditious pamphlets and . . . books." Here in the United States we live... | |
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