On Adult Education and Self-Improvement

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Excerpt from On Adult Education and Self-Improvement: An Address to the Young Men's Institute, of Bury St. Edmund's, on Their Second Anniversary, the 18th May, 1852No one, who is not blind to the signs of the times, can fail to perceive that the future destinies of this country must depend on the success with which we carry out the great undertaking of edu eating the whole community. But although this is generally admitted, I think it is often sup posed that this problem is confined to the duty of providing school-training for the children of the lower orders. This supposition, whenever it is productive of any effect on the conduct of indi viduals, must be regarded as a mischievous error, for it induces a forgetfulness of the reasons which make it desirable that the mental and moral culti vation of all classes should be duly regarded, and that the school training of the lower orders, and working classes should be continued and completed. Now we must educate the upper classes, if we would not deprive rank of its only lustre, and wealth of its greatest charm, we must educate the middle classes, if we would furnish them with the inducements for shaking off the selfishness of indolent respectability, if we would enable them to resist the aggressions of intrusive bigotry, if we would break down the party-walls of class-preju dices, if we would inspire every one of those who have virtually a large share in the government of England, with an enlightened regard for his own and his country's welfare, and lastly, we must.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.