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Abstract
Her Majesty has observed with deep concern the want of instruction which is still observable among the poorer classes of Her subjects. All the inquiries which have been made show a deficiency in the general Education of the People which is not in accordance with the character of a Gvilized and Christian Nation. ... [A]mong the chief defects yet subsisting may be reckoned the... imperfect mode of teaching which prevails in perhaps the greater number of the schools, the absence of any sufficient inspection of the schools, and examination of the nature of the instruction given, the want of a Model School which might serve for the example of those societies and committees which anxiously seek to improve their own methods of teaching ...
(Papers on Education, P.P. 1839, Vol. XLI, Lord John Russell to the Lord President of the Council, the Marquis of Lansdowne, 4 February 1839.)