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Excerpt from A Digest of the New Education Bill Before the year 1833 the State took no cognisance Of Elementary Education. The matter was left entirely to the action of private individuals, or of societies or associations voluntarily established for its promotion. There was no legal assertion or legal enactment that it was the duty of parents to send their children to school, and no penalties existed if parents neglected their interests or their duties in this vital subject. Early in the present century the British and Foreign School Society and the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Church of England came into existence for the purpose of providing elementary schools for the children of the industrial classes. Their funds were obtained by the voluntary offer ings of persons who believed that the education, religious and secular, of the poor was of vital importance to the State. By their efforts large sums 'of money were annually collected and spent in erecting and maintaining schools. In 1833 the Treasury was empowered by Parliament to distribute the sum of amongst these two societies towards the establishment of schools, and this sum was yearly voted until the formation of the Committee of Council in 1839. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.