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will be found in our Volume for 1842, p. 637. to p. 642. 

 Having fixed on a central situation for a school, we would 

 build one sufficiently commodious for the population within a 

 certain circle, say imder two miles in diameter, with a proper 

 house and garden for the teacher. The only compulsory mea- 

 sure that we should propose would be, that every child on 

 the estate should be sent to this school till it was fifteen or 

 eighteen years of age, or to some other school equally good. 

 The greater part of the schoolmaster's salary shovild be paid 

 by the proprietor, and the remainder by the children of the 

 tenantry, or of other persons on the estate not day labourers. 

 The education of their children should be considered as part 

 of their wages. In the schools the boys would be taught a 

 little of carpentry and of all the building arts; and in the 

 school garden the operations of horticulture, and the reasons 

 for them, and enough of botany to enable them, in any 

 country, to distinguish edible plants and fruits from such as 

 are poisonous, and the comparatively edible season of even 

 poisonous plants, viz., when the sap is rising. In short, the 

 education of the boys should be such as would fit them for 

 emigration. The girls would be taught cookery, housewifery, 

 clothes-making and mending, and the art of taking care of 

 children. Children twelve years of age and upwards should 

 be allowed to work a certain proportion of every day for the 

 benefit of their parents. Grown-up men and women that 

 could not read or write we would have taught, if they were 

 willing to learn, privately at their homes, or in the school at 

 particular times. We would teach at school morality, as 

 founded on our innate sense of justice, and on our experience 

 of its utility, and charitable and liberal feeling towards all 

 religions and opinions of every kind, so long as these opinions 

 were not attempted to be forced on others : but we would 

 allow no particular religion to be inculcated by the teacher ; 

 leaving that matter entirely to the parents of the children and 

 the clergy of the church, chapel, or meeting-houses to which 

 they belonged. 



3. A portion of the payment of all the labourers should be 

 the rent of their house and garden, the education of their chil- 

 dren, and a certain quantity of wheat, barley, potatoes, bacon, 

 and mutton ; a mill being established on the estate for the 

 purpose of grinding their wheat into flour, and a malthouse for 

 malting their barley and grinding it. We would employ a plain 

 cook to go round and teach the mistress of every cottage how to 

 make the most of her food, and advise also as to other points 

 of housewifery, 



4. To enable the labourers to make the most of their gardens, 

 we would engage a gardener to go round among them weekly. 



