ABSTRACT
Amid the many great and pressing questions of the day education undoubtedly holds a prominent place. It is admitted to be a subject of vast and vital importance, and has within the last twenty years been more fully dealt with in numerous ways, both nationally and privately. The number of theories, schemes, plans, designs, projects of all kinds, which have been broached within the last few years to improve the systems of education, have been legion. How shall we best educate our boys and girls? is a question which comes home to all who have children, no matter what the position or means; and, although education for the middle and lower classes is now attended to in a great measure by the State, and the lower classes especially have little or no choice in the matter, it is still in the power of the upper classes to, in some measure, choose for their children what kind of education they may think most suitable, and, if the choice does not turn out happily or beneficial for the child, still parents have a discretionary power which might be wisely exercised.
