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[EDUCATION REFORM].

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"THE WRETCHED IGNORANCE OF A LARGE PORTION OF THE POPULATION, IS THE FRUITFUL PARENT OF CRIME"

At a meeting of the West London Lancasterian Association, held on the second day of August 1813

Folio, single sheet printed on the recto and verso (272 x 207mm). Browned and a little stained, old fold lines, slightly worn in the centre of the sheet at the fold lines. Neatly mounted at the left-hand margin on a sheet of thicker paper (so that the verso text is still visible).

London: J[ohn] McCreery, [1813], 1813.

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[EDUCATION REFORM].

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There is a single copy of this broadside at Yale (Law).

A plan for a new system of education to stop children falling into crime, supported by bankers and booksellers.

The Lancasterian system of education was devised by the Quaker Joseph Lancaster and his first school opened in Borough Road in South London in 1798. The system was intended to vastly increase the number of children that could be taught by having only one teacher responsible for a very large number of children (sometimes as many as 300) and in turn having the younger children taught by their fellow older classmates. This broadside announces the intention to open schools north of the River Thames in West London and boldly assures those who might subscribe to the scheme that: “of the many thousands of Children, educated at the Royal Lancastrian Institution, none has been known to be prosecuted for a crime.”

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