LONDON:

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY-STREET, STRAND.

Rev. Sept. 7. 1831-

AN APOLOG Y

FOR

THE SYSTEM OF

PUBLIC AND CLASSICAL EDUCATION.

BY THOMAS MAUDE, ESQ. M. A.

OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXxford; and oF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.

"Proceed, great days! till learning fly the shore,
Till birch shall blush with noble blood no more."-POPE.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY.
MDCCCXXVIII.

Educ

2248.28

1831, Sept. 7. Gift of Obadiah Rich,

of

London.

EDUCATION.

EDUCATION.

PERHAPS there is no subject of a general and extensive nature, of which it is so difficult to treat in a general and comprehensive manner, as In speaking of education in the abstract, it is obvious that allusion is made to that of the upper classes in society; though, at the present day, the education of the lower orders, adults as well as infants, forms a more prominent, as a more novel, topic of public discussion. That the proper instruction of the latter is a point of national interest and importance, no one capable of holding a sound opinion will deny ; and, though the fittest means of carrying the plans of the philanthropist regarding them into