Joseph Lancaster Quotes

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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;…
• 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…
• Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
• 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…
• We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
• All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
• 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.
• The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
• 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…
• 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 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.
• 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…
• The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.
• 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…
• 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…

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