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" For, however specious in theory the project might be, of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would, in effect, be found to be prejudicial to their morals and happiness; it would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead of... "
Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, During the ... Session of the ... - Page 785
by Great Britain. Parliament - 1812
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English National Education: A Sketch of the Rise of Public Elementary ...

Henry Holman - Education - 1898 - 268 pages
...was actually said in the Commons, the following by Mr. Davies Giddy is worthy of notice:—However specious in theory the project might be, of giving...laborious employments to which their rank in society has destined them; instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them factious and refractory,...
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State Intervention in English Education: A Short History from the Earliest ...

James Edward Geoffrey De Montmorency - Education - 1902 - 406 pages
...He considered that "however specious reading. in theory the project might be, of giving ^ev^'ddy S education to the labouring classes of the poor, it...their rank in society had destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them factious and refractory, as was evident in the manufacturing...
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Record of the Visit of the University of Paris, Collège de France, and ...

University of London - Universities and colleges - 1907 - 162 pages
...plan for the education of the poor. He argued that, ' however specious in theory might be the project of giving education to the labouring classes of the...their rank in society had destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them factious and refractory ; it would enable them to...
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The Development of Modern Europe: An Introduction to the Study of ..., Volume 1

James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - Europe - 1908 - 528 pages
...that giving education to the working classes would be "found prejudicial to their morals and their happiness ; it would teach them to despise their lot...and other laborious employments to which their rank has destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination it would render them fractious and refractory,...
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Some Social and Political Pioneers of the Nineteenth Century

Ramsden Balmforth - Great Britain - 1912 - 252 pages
...labouring classes of the poor, it would, in effect, be found to be prejudicial to their morals and their happiness; it would teach them to despise their lot...laborious employments to which their rank in society has destined them; instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them factious and refactory,...
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Social Progress in Contemporary Europe

Frederic Austin Ogg - Europe - 1912 - 408 pages
...provision of education for the working-classes would be found "prejudicial to their morals and their happiness; it would teach them to despise their lot...and other laborious employments to which their rank has destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them fractious and refractory,...
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Social Progress in Contemporary Europe

Frederic Austin Ogg - Europe - 1912 - 406 pages
...provision of education for the working-classes would be found "prejudicial to their morals and their happiness; it would teach them to despise their lot...and other laborious employments to which their rank has destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them fractious and refractory,...
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Reform Movements in Behalf of Children in England of the Early Nineteenth ...

Isabel Simeral - Child labor - 1916 - 242 pages
...laboring classes of the poor, it would in effect be found prejudicial to their morals and happiness,—it would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead...laborious employments to which their rank in society destined them. Instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them factious and refractory,...
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The Skilled Labourer, 1760-1832

John Lawrence Hammond, Barbara Bradby Hammond - Great Britain - 1920 - 422 pages
...bloodhounds and throws them the hearts of his countrymen to chew. CHAPTER XIII CONCLUSION ' Education . . . would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead...to which their rank in society had destined them.' DA VIES GIDDY, President of Royal Society, House of Commune, July 1807. 'The poor man is esteemed only...
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The Living Age, Volume 311

Literature - 1921 - 930 pages
...him, that, — however specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the laboring classes of the poor, it would in effect be found to...their rank in society had destined them; instead of teaching them subordination it would render them factious and refractory, as was evident in the manufacturing...
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