ABSTRACT
The men, who should form a plan of education, comprehending the whole community, and who should be able to forward its execution, would receive the blessings of unborn ages. Any children, the rich as well as poor, within certain districts, will be admissible into these. Common learning, and the means of gaining a trade, might by this plan, be accessible to all; and polite literature, be left at large, to be pursued at discretion. The ancient Lacedaemonians adopted a plan something similar to this: from seven years of age, rich and poor children were distributed into classes, and educated in the same school. The charity schools, founded in queen Anne’s reign, in 1713, were erected for the education of poor children in the knowledge and practice of the christian religion, as professed and taught by the church of England.
