| Description Of Item | The article states that training, or the formation of habits, rather than teaching, or the imparting of knowledge, is the great business of education. He gives Eton Union as an example of the inefficiency of workhouse education. The article describes how he believes the majority of workhouse schools fail on morals and industry and that this was the case at the Eton School. The training in industry and morality was defective; the training in knowledge was excellent. Mr Tuffnell also refers to a testimonial addressed to Mr Langley, the master of the school, by Reverend C D Goldie, Inspector of Schools for the Bishop of Oxford. He also refers to the prizes gained by the school in the competitive examination with other schools via the diocesan prize association, diocese of Oxford. Article also references another inspector’s comment from Report of the Committee of Council on Education, 1862-3, p338.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock.
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