IN

EDUCATION

AS IT RESPECTS THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES

OF THE

COMMUNITY;

CONTAINING,

AMONG OTHER IMPORTANT PARTICULARS,

An Account of the Institution for the Education of
ONE THOUSAND POOR CHILDREN,

BOROUGH ROAD, SOUTHWARK;

AND OF THE NEW SYSTEM OF EDUCATION ON WHICH IT IS

CONDUCTED.

BY JOSEPH LANCASTER.

"All nations, indeed, of which we have any account, in be-
coming rich, have become profligate; a torrent of depraved morality has
in every opulent state, borne down with irresistible violence those mounds
and fences, by which the wisdom of legislators attempted to protect chastity,
sobriety, and virtue. If any check can be given to the corruption of a state
increasing in riches and declining in morals, it must be given, not by laws
enacted to alter the inveterate habits of men, but by education adapted
to form the hearts of children to a proper sense of moral and religious
excellence."---Bishop of Landaff's Charge, 1788.

SIXTH EDITION.

London:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. LANCASTER, FREE SCHOOL, BOROUGH ROAD;
DARTON AND HARVEY, GRACECHURCH STREET, AND HATCHARD,

PICCADILLY.
1806

BRITISH

FIBRAR

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939

JOHN DUKE QF BEDFORD,

AND

JOHN LORD SOMERVILLE,

In Testimony of the cheerful, generous, and important assistance they have repeatedly given, and continue to give, the Institution and system of Instruction described in the ensuing pages, this Publication is

Most respectfully inscribed,

By their obliged and grateful Friend,

FREE SCHOOL, Borough-roaD,

8th of 8th Month, 1806.

JOSEPH LANCASTER.

THE following pages contain the result and experience of much personal labour, study, and expense. In one single page is frequently detailed, that which has employed me for many months to discover; and which has, ultimately, rendered important services to some hundreds of children. The book is printed on as economical a plan as is consistant with neatness, that more advantage may accrue to the institution, for the benefit of which the profits are to be applied, at my discretion; probably, in uniting some works of industry with education.

It is not to the size of the book, but to its contents that I wish to recommend attention: and if the practical part of this work be read with precision, it will be better understood and afford more satisfaction.

If any benevolent persons, conversant with the subject of education, from practice,should

be