EDUCATION AS A MEANS OF PREVENTING DESTITUTION: WITH EXEMPLIFICATIONS FROM THE TEACHING OF THE AT THE BIRKBECK SCHOOLS. PREFACED BY A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, M.P. BY WILLIAM ELLIS, AUTHOR OF THE "OUTLINES OF SOCIAL ECONOMY," ETC. BIBL LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL. 1851. 232. b. 13. CONTENTS. PAGE IV. What is Competition ?.... 93 Not over-population, but under-education, the cause of Des- EDUCATION AS A MEANS OF PREVENTING DESTITUTION. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, M.P. MY LORD, I AM aware that it must be matter of more than ordinary importance, which alone can justify an obscure individual in trespassing upon your time and attention. When I state that the subject upon which I would trouble you is "Education," I think I may flatter myself, that you will not disdain to spare a few minutes for the consideration of what I would now venture to bring under your notice-especially if I add, what is well known to many in this metropolis and elsewhere, that I am not merely a talker or writer, but an actual worker in the great Educational harvestfield. There is, I believe, among all who are taking an active part in the diffusion and improvement of Education, a common feeling of regret, for the deficiency, both in quality and quantity, of the Education acces B |