. Preliminary report of the director of education upon observations made during an official visit to Europe and America; with recommendations referring to state education in Victoria. lSSEMBLY hall, primary school (girls). STAIRWAY, PRIMARY SCHOOL (GIRLS), ZURICH. the whole, popular education in England was undertaken grud-gingly and distrustfully. It was unlikely, therefore, that apeople who took up the business of public education in thisspirit would make much of a success of it, and ,so it provedfor the next thirty years. The idea, that popular education bythe State partakes of the
. Preliminary report of the director of education upon observations made during an official visit to Europe and America; with recommendations referring to state education in Victoria. lSSEMBLY hall, primary school (girls). STAIRWAY, PRIMARY SCHOOL (GIRLS), ZURICH. the whole, popular education in England was undertaken grud-gingly and distrustfully. It was unlikely, therefore, that apeople who took up the business of public education in thisspirit would make much of a success of it, and ,so it provedfor the next thirty years. The idea, that popular education bythe State partakes of the nature of charity, persisted long inEngland, and does so in Victoria to some extent. It is hardto credit that the most elaborate regulations were issued fordefining the various classes of people who might rightly useState-aided schools. The schools prior to 1870 were for thelabouring class only. In the Regulations of the English Edu-cation Department, 1864, we find : Simple policemen, coast-guards, and dock and railway porters may commonly be regardedas labouring men. But petty officers in those services, excise-men, pilots, and clerks of various kinds, present more difficulty,and must be judged of according to the answers
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