A Review and Compendium of the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords, Appointed on the 17th of February, 1854, to Inquire Into the Practical Working of the System of National Education in Ireland, Containing an Impartial Summary of the Whole ...

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Página 609 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
Página 205 - Schools be kept open for a certain number of hours, on four or five days of the week, at the discretion of the Commissioners, for moral and literary education only; and that the remaining one or two days in the week be set apart for giving, separately, such religious education to the children, as may be approved of by the Clergy of their respective persuasions.
Página xxvi - ... in 1828 a committee of the house of commons, to which were referred the various reports of the commissioners of education, recommended a system to be adopted which should afford, if possible, a combined literary, and a separate religious education, and should be capable of being so far adapted to the views of the religious persuasions which divide Ireland, as to render it, in truth, a system of National education for the poorer classes of the community.
Página 201 - Christians of all denominations ; but an one of the main objects must be to unite in one system children of different creeds, and as much must depend upon the co-operation of the resident clergy, the Board will probably look with peculiar favour...
Página xxvi - They will also permit and encourage the Clergy to give religious instruction to the children of their respective persuasions, either before or after the ordinary school hours on the other days of the week.
Página 210 - If any other books than the Holy Scriptures, or the standard books of the church to which the children using them belong, be employed in communicating religious instruction, the title of each is to be made known to the Commissioners whenever they deem it necessary.
Página 175 - ... be explicitly avowed, and clearly understood, as its leading principle, that no attempt shall be made to influence or disturb the peculiar religious tenets of any sect or description of Christians.
Página xxv - The commissioners in 1812 recommended the appointment of a Board of this description, to superintend a system of education, from which should be banished even the suspicion of proselytism, and which, admitting children of all religious persuasions, should not interfere with the peculiar tenets of any.
Página 210 - They will exercise the most entire control over all books to be used in the schools, whether in the combined moral and literary, or separate religious instruction ; none to be employed in the first, except under the sanction of the Board, nor in the latter, but with the approbation of those members of the Board who are of the same religious persuasion with those for whose use they are intended.
Página 30 - Lessons, or Book of Sacred Poetry, being read in any of the National schools ; nor do they allow them to be read, as part of the ordinary school business (during which all children, of whatever denomination they may be, are required to attend), in any school attended by children whose parents or guardians object to their being read by their children.

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