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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 27, 24 October 1884, Page 7

There is nothing surprisiug in the statement made by our London correspondent in the able letter which we publish to-day that the English School Board system of education is rapidly falling into discredit. Not a weet passes bat we read in the papers the news of some death or other calamity which may be easily traced to the excessive mental labour impose i upon the poorly -fed childreu of the poorer classes. To omit the religious aspect of the question, it must follow that to instruct the poor much against their will in a multitude of subjects which will never enable them to earn their daily bread, but which may have a directly opposite tendency, is not to spread abroad the blessings of education. How much better would it not be to provide practical instruction, to teach the working classes how to succeed in their own special walk of life, and to prepare them, to use tne words of our own correspondent, for the borne, the factory and the farm. Such is the kind of instruction which is imparted by the moat experienced among the educators of the poor, the* Christian Brothers, whose exhibition at the Healtheries has attracted such universal interest. We call attention to this pubjeoc all the more readily, because the evil of bestowing what is called a liberal education upon such as cannot possibly benefit by it, is not unlikely to prove ere long as great a misfortune to the poorer classes of India as to those of Great Britain.— Bombay Catholic E«aminer\