Mr. Foster, in a recent speech on education, says: — "Five out of six of us have to earn our bread by manual labour, and will have to earn it to the end of the chapter. Five out of six English children in past generations were in consequence apprenticed to some trade or calling. Tho only English education was tbe apprentice system. . . , . I do not undervalue book knowledge. It is a beautiful thing. But the stubborn fact will remain, that after the years which have been spent at school tbe pupil wili be launched into Hfe as unable as when be first entered the school-door to earn a sixpence .-^possessing neither skill nor knowledge for which any employer in England will be willing to hire his ser vices."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 57, 7 March 1874, Page 2
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