Joseph Lancaster Quotes

• All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Blessing, Moral, Increase

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.151

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• The rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Children, Mean, Cost

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.41

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• Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Party, Two, Benefits

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.151

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• The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Teacher, Giving, Youth

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• IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Writing, Topics, Becoming

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.43

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• 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.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Design, Purpose, Spirit

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.148

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• My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

  Joseph Lancaster

  School, Three, Hundred

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing, a Short Account of Its Present State, Hints Towards Its Improvement, and a Detail of Some Practical Experiments Conducive to that End”, p.53

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• 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.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Teacher, Book, Library

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.38

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• A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Kindness, Breathing, Independence

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.148

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

  Joseph Lancaster

  Pay, Difficulty, Complaints

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.142

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• Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Intelligent, Men, Doubt

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.14

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• 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.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Children, School, Parent

  Joseph Lancaster (1805). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.180

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• 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.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Self, Order, Genius

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.48

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• 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.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Christian, Evil, Effort

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.42

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• When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Christian, Blessed, Men

  Joseph Lancaster, William Corston (2014). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Encouragement, Community, Mechanic

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.154

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• 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.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Religious, Children, Thinking

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.149

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

  Joseph Lancaster

  School, Female, Might

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.153

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• 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.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Encouragement, Loss, Boys

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing, a Short Account of Its Present State, Hints Towards Its Improvement, and a Detail of Some Practical Experiments Conducive to that End”, p.50

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

  Joseph Lancaster

  Men, Mind, Action

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.145

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