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My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.
Joseph Lancaster /
Hundred
School
Three
Attended
Near
Scholars
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All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
Joseph Lancaster /
Blessing
Increase
Moral
Agreed
Blessings
Morals
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The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.
Joseph Lancaster /
Men
Action
Juvenile
Mind
Stimulus
Effect
Minds
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Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
Joseph Lancaster /
Female
Might
Patronage
Propriety
School
Worthy
List
Schools
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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 /
Complaints
Department
Difficulty
Obtaining
Pay
Complaint
Generally
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IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
Joseph Lancaster /
Becoming
Biased
Moderation
Prejudice
Propriety
Topics
Writing
Principle
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We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
Joseph Lancaster /
Encouragement
Beneficial
Community
Ingenious
Invention
Mechanic
Witness
Daily
Effect
Held
Institution
Inventions
Mechanics
Produced
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Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
Joseph Lancaster /
Men
Capable
Doubt
Expansion
Intelligent
Rational
Usefulness
Youth
Beings
Consider
Talents
Formed
Inclined
Indeed
Minds
Some Men
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The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.
Joseph Lancaster /
Teacher
Esteem
Force
Giving
Intention
Sincere
Youth
Additional
Teachers
Dictate
Met
Raise
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In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.
Joseph Lancaster /
Active
Brethren
Members
Purpose
Established
Christians
Inclined
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The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
Joseph Lancaster /
Teacher
Adapted
Book
Containing
Expensive
Library
Public Library
Subjects
Teachers
Institution
Purchase
Whom
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The rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.
Joseph Lancaster /
Children
Cost
Mean
Subsistence
Theory
Adopt
Ample
Derived
Possess
Regardless
Whose
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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 /
Difficulty
Disposition
Purpose
Reader
Gratify
Requisite
Tract
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A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
Joseph Lancaster /
Kindness
Independence
Breathing
Compulsion
Englishmen
Submit
Brook
Dictates
Tempered
Whom
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At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.
Joseph Lancaster /
Children
Cost
Metropolis
Parent
Pounds
School
Sterling
Thousand
Twenty Five
Attend
Calculation
Children Parents Who
Per
Inhabiting
Million
Moderate
Schools
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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 /
Design
Poor
Purpose
Resolution
Spirit
Attempt
Committee
Guide
Persuaded
Render
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A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.
Joseph Lancaster /
Christian
Delayed
Effort
Evil
Public Good
Remedy
Sole
Efforts
Expand
Minds
Narrow
Object
Principle
Requires
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Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
Joseph Lancaster /
Benefits
Contending
Cultivation
Deprived
Party
Ruined
Two
Youth
Benefit
Bestow
Talents
Idly
Morals
Parties
Thereby
Thousands
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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
Joseph Lancaster /
Encouragement
Attainment
Boys
Coercion
Loss
Punishment
Reverse
Tickets
Boy
Preventive
Proves
Reward
Seem
Serviceable
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Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.
Joseph Lancaster /
Children
Divided
Gracious
Mankind
Parent
Religious
Sincerity
Subjects
Thinking
Alike
Approbation
Loves
Motives
Individuals
Purest
Worships
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When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
Joseph Lancaster /
Men
Blessed
Christian
Christianity
Disciple
Divine
Lord
Obedience
Pace
Fruits
Precepts
Produced
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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 /
Enormous
Lottery
Parent
Proportion
Rising
Welfare
Bear
Blanks
Master
Plain
Prevail
Statement
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I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.
Joseph Lancaster /
Conviction
Emulation
Genius
Gratification
Latent
Merit
Order
Self
Self Interest
Servant
Youth
Useful
Easily
Directed
Establish
Induced
Orders
Several
Sordid
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