Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Manchester and the Movement for National Elementary Education, 1800-1870
Francis adams (of Birmingham). History of the Elementary School Contest in England.
WE are all familiar with the commonplace that education is a vital concern of everybody and sometimes we are tempted to draw the conclusion that it is one of those subjects which ought to be withdrawn from the arena of party politics and settled by common consent of all well-disposed citizens. But from the very fact that education cannot be confined to any one department of life, but touches in turn, in England at all events, religion, morals, politics, social ideals, trade and health, as well as knowledge, any educational proposal must always be accompanied by keen con?ict of opinion in fact principles are often more deeply involved in educational movements than in almost anything else, and one has only to trace the history of any one of the numerous sources of our educational system to realise that in the past it has always been so. In national affairs, however, the currents of opinion and the enormous toil oi propagating ideas are not easy to follow. Parliament seldom acts until the need for action has been convincingly shown by years of devoted effort by hundreds and thousands of individuals who can never figure in the final drama. To understand the long failure of Parliament to establish uni versal education in England is to understand a very large portion of the life of England in the nineteenth century.
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