This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.

A national evil requires a national remedy let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts.

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.