Author : Anna Tolman Smith
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Book Synopsis The Education Bill of 1906 for England and Wales As It Past the House of Commons by : Anna Tolman Smith

Download or read book The Education Bill of 1906 for England and Wales As It Past the House of Commons written by Anna Tolman Smith. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...voted it into the bill. To a greater or less extent we shall have the voluntary school system reestablished on the footing of 1870 to 1902; that is to say, grant aided and independent of the local education authority. And within the administration of the local education authority will be two other kinds of schools--. undenominational and denominational. The fact itself of this new tripartite classification of the public elementary schools is of prime importance. The contraction or extension of its importance in the practical work of future years will depend chiefly upon the local education authorities. c The Schoolmaster (edited by Doctor Macnamara), which from first to last has opposed the concession of "extended facilities," explains the influences that are working to restore certified, private, state-aided schools, as follows: It is, of course, extremely easy to see how "contracting out" has been brought about. The extreme wing of nonconformity wants the denominational schools outside, so that they may be slowly extinguished as a result of the pressure of Whitehall demands. The extreme denominationalist wants them outside, because it puts them and the teachers again into the hollow of his hand. Finally, there is the ratepayer. He will be the most potent influence in this nefarious scheme. He has hated the act of 1902, not so much on account of any religious disability it imposed upon him, as because of the fact that it imposed upon him--in a great many areas for the first time--burdens of rating. It will be his persistent purpose to make the conditions of clause 4 so onerous that, with this " contracting out" as an alternative, denominationalists asking for " extended facilities" will have, in a...