Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Education Bill, and Its Probable Effects on the Schools, the Scholars, and the School-Teachers
One of the two main objects of the present Bill is to cover the country with Local Education Authorities. When the present Government came into office in 1895 both the question of the Central State Executive for Education and the question of the Local Control were in a very faulty state. With a zeal born of youthful vigour the Government tried in 1896 to tackle both these problems in one Bill. The attempt proved abortive; the Govern ment had, as the Americans say, bitten off more than they could chew. They straightway resolved to deal with the two questions separately and in 1899 passed a good Bill, the Board of Education Bill, which unified and consolidated the several separate and independent departments of State for the various grades of' education. So far so good. Now comes the very delicate and thorny problem of overhauling the Local Authority phase of the question. Here you are face to face with vested interests and administrative jealousies and prejudices of a very pronounced character. And here the task of reform is one of the gravest. Difficulty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
