A Letter on the National Society's Training-College for Schoolmasters, Stanley Grove, Chelsea, Adressed to the REV. John Sinclair (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842. Excerpt: ... A LETTER, &c. My Dear Sir, You have signified to me the wish of the Committee of the National Society, that an account of the Training-College at Stanley Grove should he drawn up, with as little delay as possible, that it may be laid before them in the early part of the present season. Such ari account, if, as I suppose, it is intended to exhibit the general features of the scheme, must still be in a measure prospective. Considerable progress has indeed been made in the undertaking; but time and opportunity have alike been wanting to develop fully even the earlier portions of the plan. A gradual mode of proceeding has been adopted as well from necessity as from choice; and thus, though the College has been open for the reception of pupils somewhat more than a year, yet, from the incomplete state of the buildings and other causes, several important arrangements have still to be carried into effect. The experience, however, of the last twelve months has been equally encouraging and instructive, and I am thus enabled to speak of the future with less reserve. As it is desirable that the following statement should be complete in itself, I shall not scruple to incorporate with it the substance of any notice which may have appeared on the subject, whether in the Society's publications or elsewhere. If my report were designed solely for the information of the Committee, such repetition would be at the least superfluous; but I have observed, even among persons interested in the cause of education, a remarkable ignorance with regard to the recent exertions of the National Society. The very existence, not to say the nature, of the Society's Training-College is by no means generally known; and I would gladly assist, not merely in giving greater publicity to their ex...