 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1847 - 148 ページ
...country, to tempt a man having a respectable acquaintance with the elements of even humble learning, exchange the certainty of a respectable livelihood,...to be reduced by bad harvests, want of employment, strikes, sickness among the children, or, worst of all, by the calamity of his own ill-health. Of late... | |
 | 1875 - 610 ページ
...children of the poor, in an elementary school as it i* now conducted." " For what is the condition ofthe master of such a school ? He has often an income very little greater than of an agricultural labourer, and very rarely equal to that of a moderately •skilful mechanic. * *... | |
 | Charles Birchenough - 1914 - 436 ページ
...commerce for the mean drudgery of instructing the rude children of the poor in an elementary school. " For what is the condition of the master of such a...labourer, and very rarely equal to that of a moderately skilled mechanic. Moreover it is beset with uncertainties. He tries all manner of means to eke it out,... | |
 | Charles Birchenough - 1925 - 548 ページ
...instructing the rude children of the poor in an elementary school. / " For what is the condition"^ the master of such a school ? He has often an income...labourer, and very rarely equal to that of a moderately skilled mechanic. Moreover it is beset with uncertainties. He tries all manner of means to eke it out,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1960 - 634 ページ
...ill-warmed, ill-supplied with books and apparatus. Above all, the condition of the teacher was deplorable. 'He has often an income very little greater than that of an agricultural labourer, 25 and very rarely equal to that of a moderately skilful mechanic. Even this income is to a great degree... | |
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There is little or nothing in the profession of an elementary schoolmaster, in this country, to tempt a man having a respectable acquaintance with the elements of even humble learning to exchange the certainty of a respectable livelihood in a subordinate... 