^238 Spencer's Observations on Education. 



seriously on pupils from Ireland. The cost, 

 however, is but a part of the evil. The habits 

 acquired by an English education contribute to 

 estrange the Irish youths from their native 

 country. 



Spencer, in his View of Ireland, to which I 

 have before had occasion to refer, makes the 

 following observations. 



" But learning, and bringing up in liberal 

 sciences, will not come of itself, but must be 

 drawn on by strict laws and ordinances ; and 

 therefore it were well that such an act was 

 ordained, that all the sons of lords, gentlemen, 

 and such others as are able to bring them up 

 to learning, should be trained up therein from 

 their childhood ; and for that end every parish 

 should be forced to have a settled school-master, 

 adjoining unto the parish church, to be the 

 more in view, which should bring up the chil- 

 dren in their first elements of letters ; and that 

 in every county and baronie they should have 

 an able school-master, who should instruct 

 them in the grammar, and in the principles of 

 science, to whom they should be obliged to 

 send their youth to be disciplined, whereby 

 they would in a short time grow up to that civil 

 conversation." 



