The million-peopled city
Garwood, John
1853
Review of the subsequent Progress of London Ragged Schools to the present Time.
The progress of has since been very great. It is thus described by , in his recent Lecture on " The Rise, Progress, and Results of Ragged Schools," which the "" very truly describes as "the most complete summary of the movement that has yet been printed." | |
This is rightly termed a 'movement.' Ignorance, and its attendant, crime, had marched far, with a fearful start, before us. We move to overtake it with knowledge and religion ; limping, it may be, in the pursuit, but continually onward. To halt would be shame and danger; it is a movement which we dare not arrest. | |
" In estimating the progress of this movement, we must consider its numerical increase as well as its growing efficiency . | |
" At first [1] there were only 20 schools thus linked together in London; and successively, for each year, their number has become 26, 44, 62, 82, 95, 102; and at present there are 110. | |
" So of teachers, 200 laboured voluntarily in these schools to begin with; and they have increased annually to 250, 450, 822, 929, 1,392, 1,400, and 1,657 at the present time. There are also 203 paid masters. | |
" The children attending these schools have increased from 2,000 in the first year, to 12,423 in ." . . | |
Footnotes: [1] I. e. When the Ragged School Union was formed, in 1844. |