The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-23 00:00:00

MIDDLE CLASS EDUCATION.

The annual distribufion of prizes at the Chathsts.
strut School of Medicine, Maushester, took place on
Monday afternees, whoa Bir Jeanie Kay SIIVTTLIWOIiTIf,
Hirt., was invited to address the students and stSciato as
distrjhutor. There was a large attendanee of medical men,
as well as of the 'hairnets sad their friend,. The principal
Mature of Sir J. K. Bhattleworth'e address related almost
esaimively to the medial passim, its sksreeteristiee,
opportuaities, and (esent beards. Re thou proceeded to
speak of tie preliminary Paints' required before commons
hag the study of • pantomime profusion, sad observed that a
seseplato reformation of middle•claas oduestios was
m&red inevitable, by the foundation that had born laid
for a thoroughly efficient system of primary schools. The
grammar schools of England owed their origami to, and
were intended to establish, the Reformation. Their
*chime of studies was derived from the revival of classical
literature is Europe; and they had fell the universities
Gish scholars chiefly prepared for a course which was, at
Ms Reformation, considered the only true dbeipline of
gm mind, and to afford the only solid treasure of a learned
am Bat slime then the face of England and of
shad been cheesed by social sad political mots.
fists{ me were now is the "age of great cities," which
had wits/ out of the met developments of commerce ;
tsd lia the for the cemmercial dominion of the
oeslb• jed ariaea that science and art should
be as ahead gh every class of society as to place
pemperity seder their guidance. The first step towards
Melia these "isms had been taken at the universities:
SDI w grammar schools, if they would not be dislocated
MIS their ancient c aaaaa ions, must make correspoodiag
Ames in their preparatory scheme'. Before entering
Medial schools, students should have passed through the
ibsipline of a sound grammatical and classical 'decades,
she should enter upon their cow course with an earnest
doterminaqoa to make themselves tamilier with all the
great models of clamant' literature; but it was absolately
resestial thee', as students of nature, they should, at • very
early period, have cultivated habits of observation. They
should have so tar mastered the rudiments of the enact lei-
snag ea to relieve the professors from all elementary links*
two; and this the grammar schoAs did not pretend to meow
pilau The revenues of grammar schools were often quite
inadequate for the education of the children of the middl
Blass Ia the great towns in which they were Scanted. When
their ~mom were sufficient, the trustees were often pre
vented, by the restrictions of the trust, by the seesequencee
of previous enismanagerasnt, sad by the 'pummel apathy as
to everything relating to • feandaties buried is the dis-
credit of its own iiisMcioncy, from making • wise and bold
sffort at reconstruction. Two ream sets gave powers to
emunissioaers to ryisodel ; bat it was greatly to b•
gretted that they had still little or no opportunity of begin-
ning reform, end that when their aid was invoked their
power to remedy abuse was jeal Au'? restricted. What
might be accomplished by such institutions was shows by
the remarkable success of Xing Edward's School, Bir-
mingham ; In which the present Bishop of Maacheeter
'shouted as an administrator, with an ability almost es great
as that which his learning and great m perience seabird
him to put forth at the bead of that great school. Is
places like Manchester and Birmingham, It was important
that the 'bindle chases should have opportunities of com-
bining domentie training with public instruction. This
would not eely reader Instruction accessible to • much
larger parties ief that class than could at present afford to
send their *Mem to private boarding schools, bat would
combine the sheslinges of the moral discipline of the family
with that of the Wm'. Private boarding /*boob combined
tha disserealegee of ma expense approsehing Mut even of
Etas or lisesse, often with a very inspirfeet isstrieties la
clew a at/ almost an exclusion of serene' and art.
Ia (sestinued Bar Jaime) you have a grammar
mhos' which hoe Mem governed with more than usual wis-
dom Sad eatems; hat this great city has far outgrown the
sesame M Met sobs& Toe time has arrived when you
NM meats* the gpmeetiou of founding borough sod high
sink se situted is all the suburbs, as well as to the heart
of this great city, as to be meresible in every seighbour•
Mai. Besides the meal diet:toll's of classical literature
sea Mares of studies in these schools mast comprise every.
thing required for the applicatioa of edifies sad art
to trade and commeros, or medial for inch schoo's as that
which I now address. The proprietary schools which have
been created is some tones, imperfect ae is their wine of
studies, are • slga that this went is acknowledged. In
Scotland, the burgh sad high schools are governed by the
tows councils, and Mee is • remarkable degree promoted
the eoterprise and *trillionth of the middle Wass. They
d as adaptatioa to the modern wants of Our sows
menial society, by • liberal mission of appropriate studies.
The feta* prisms of trade and commerce, and the dove
lopaent of the art of medicine, are equolly dependent on
the *Wen* of a comprehensive red sniffiest system of
middle-clams education, which, while it neglects nothing
which can be I d from the ancients, places all the
treasures of modern miens* and sit within the
mach of the scholar. While, on the ens hand,
the improvement of primary education will, in •
short time' place the classes supported by manual
labour in a manias to be eavied by the humbler trades-
men, the growth of superior elementary schools abroad,
the foundation of technical schools of industrial science aced
sit in foreign countries, sod the existence of such colleges
as the " Soots des Arts at Metiers" at Park, together with
the midmost prostrated L the Universal Reliant's, at Paris
of the iallmose of this adoration oe the progress of ion*
lion and UMt is manufacturee—thsse are all moony the
proofs that the relations of middle-class educiatioa to
science sad art Gannet be nigh cted without national risks,
which no far-sighted government caa amount- r. In like
In order that the provincial schools of 'medicine
may yield • proper harvest of bandit, every pupil who eaters
thi m ought to have passed through the preparatory Marti-
plies of schools la wish the Instruction in ICI*6OII should
he rendered as Inkiest u it. great recent development
and the improvement of the methods et instruction re-
quire. So little has bun done in this direction, either la
the relormstioa of the grammar schools or in the private
establubsests of education, that seise great effort
of public *pintos expressed through parliament, sad
issuing is the foundation of borough end rural schools,
seams to be required as • remedy for this acknowledged
evil. By the rurganisatlem of printery lasteeation, sac
the isolation of i.e problem of the noosed ve spheres of the
religious communions and the civil g meat, the succes-
sive ministries which have saperinteaded the proceedings
of the Committee of Councils, Edmatloa have prepared
the way for the foundation of a bliaistry of Public Edina.
timi. This misistry bas before it the lash of reorganising
he laureation of the Maas ciamee, by the reformation of
the grammar mhos*, mod the fessdades eg berestizesd
rural e
schools, is whist the mums sod mstiedle
ties shall be seek ate afford es eseimente sad Med% and
to tee industrial sad medical arm every resource that ma
be derived from Merest en of discovery is esperlinestal
philosophy shish hie succeeded the revival of letters, sad
froentiediffneitai el as acquistamm with esedeat,medimeal,
sad swim art Bet yes have a right to suers more than
an IMAM ellsree. Yes have a eight to demasil
that vitstb per meson should sot be regarded
as a assume tai sisl y , bat as a part of • soars. of collegiate
diseiplias • levels,. Tom have a right to be aided to
place your school la • proviardal college, is which your
•tedents may inhale a vital form, raising them above the
limited sphere of are art, late the atmosphere of the most
liberal Marshy, the higher philomphy, sad universal
science. Tee have already is this city, is the foundation
of Mr. Owes, the germ of such • college. I have pup
poecly avoided all • nass!tatioa with say of your pew
Moors, sad I have had no enonseniecie• with the
trustees of that college, hat I do not hesitate to seeress a
personal opiates that Owens College sad the medical
wheals of this sky ought to be insorporated. The
*elle,* would dories the mhaatage of a Wye wean*
of students to dim= erlffillson to it sad to the *heels.
The *mime well deshime he reedy le make vestige.
meets fee that talisdel diedplase of your **do-ma
which pm sail who* el* to essellise with the pro-
fessorial mama TM mat of separate buildings and other
expenses d miresgssrest min jot Ito get rid of. Bat them
and ether imidemel simatages apart. the medisal wheals
wield isms a kap! Isierease of that poles sympathy mad
seppeet slab WOG sat hal ta eased them m part Na pro
ebellel sells" end sepcsielly amid ebb& dor their protes-
ters sad Medlesis the advastese of essehising their teettnieel
inane with Net gompreleasive whams of horsing which
such • *oasis ought to be enabled M afford. Frost such
'strife sympathy might we set bye that the Museum of
eared History, sad the Botaslesi Gerdes, would be de-
veloped fete well eadowed pregaseusehisseennrcted with the
pelisse of sad IBM elle libeseise of Chethem's
Ctellege, the Pr,. Library, the Phisseptdeal end !Medical
Iffisearies, and the public issinstieseof •like suture, would
be seersaible tithe 'tailgate aides es reguitions of • strict
sellegire die/alphas. If this pies et isserporation should be
blisieght ab it, let me urge epos you to &fad to pans,.
eat guardians every sesnirl!, (by the eh:toles of • tutorial
dieeipliaii, end grossest reports el maduet end moire)
that ths wide MOM of your etsdeste is under the most
,latlsat teed joshes gold/mew • abash of middle•elars
los
es
hoe end rural whack site
eillelest Lad em et instructiou—pre.
wisp esheiss ffm the somplesies of their studies in the,
provisdel maw dallies Ms Ilsoshemer—might he made
to luminaire wen with No IMMO clear middle claws. By
combining home elseetles with the public Odell.' of the
schools and sellege, the parent would have security, not
only for the moral tralaing of his sea, bat that the tea
ditimaal maxims and habits of his slam should retain
at least snob hold epos him that the mean* ef
literature, silence, sad art would, if be were dee
third to trade er commerce, be exerted within that
sphere. Fee them is a Natural jealousy that
wheels aid milers ihiely frequented by children of the
dams sot soseected with maeafactures may emproder
tastes and habits, if they do not establish amino, *MA
my wise the scholars from commercial pursuits. Three
daggers would be avoide, if private were combined with
the public edscaties, and if the discipline of trade sell
susemeree IMO ia the latter part of the starless' career
eombined with that of the mates. Thee, with respect tie
the on d esullske; rest Messier well arise, if the
ad Selehle el the reedlud shiders mid be m ordered es that,
while is 'sheet sad college the widest range et clusisel
herein sad edam was vials his reeeh, the patio Mt
salutary herniates, the family should gaud out youth from
these temptatioas to liseatimeame, both is sposslodess sad
modem, which peculiarly Meet their path. la Owens
Celle*, *4 Ia them satalleet madimal mbeels, yes bass
the elements out of whirl to create the poeyteeNl oellogo,
a.d yen have • sight to seek the support of • thoroughly
'Molest systems et borough saheb. This is sot the time
M dismiss the lessees whims the inseams of suet Matins.
time should be derived ; see their aide el Wool room

ant; nor the relations which they ought to bold to the
sentral authority, vadat would regulate the qualifleatioas of
professore, sad the mode of granting dry &e. I can
/Daly say, that such arrangecteuts would belaeoropMible
with the present ehseHe state of the seedbed prehensile, sad
that the creation of such last uth:es ought to be wawa*
peranecus with the orgaaisatlea of needled edasation,
together with all its di.tipllae, saastinae, mad rewards,
!into ens harmonious institution throughout the Uaited
Kiegdein.
Sir Imes repeatedly sheered daring his edam&
Having Inteequestly distributed the prises, be auseuted to
a request preferred by the 'beetle, that a. would allow the
address to be piloted (or circulation.