Schools for All.

£1,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

There is a single copy of this broadside at Yale (Law). A plan for a new system of education to stop children falling into crime, supported by bankers and booksellers. The Lancasterian system of education was devised by the Quaker Joseph Lancaster and his first school opened in Borough Road in South London in 1798. The system was intended to vastly increase the number of children that could be taught by having only one teacher responsible for a very large number of children (sometimes as many as 300) and in turn having the younger children taught by their fellow older classmates. This broadside announces the intention to open schools north of the River Thames in West London and boldly assures those who might subscribe to the scheme that: “of the many thousands of Children, educated at the Royal Lancastrian Institution, none has been known to be prosecuted for a crime.”

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