THE WORKING MAN AND FREE EDUCATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 39, 22 January 1886, Page 15

THE WORKING MAN AND FREE EDUCATION.

«N another oolamn of this paper we notice a pamphlet published in England on this subject, and we shall also begin the publication of it in our next issue. We earnestly ask the special attention of working-men to this pamphlet. From a perusal of it they will see how, under the specious pretence of serving them, their abler and more astute fellow-citizens of the middle classes are in reality compelling them to pay for a system of education, from which, whilst they themselves profit little, the well-to-do classes, although practically paying less than their fair share, are deriving nearly all the advantages. It is most important that the working-men should clearly and fully understand the case. The proposition which the author of this pamphlet sets himself to establish is that the working-men pay more for free education than any others in the community, and derive less advantages from it. And this proposition he fully and clearly establishes. As the public will soon have this pamphlet before them, it is not necessary we should say more about it to-day.