Character of Instruction

in each Class.

In ordinary Attendance.

Who have left within

the last 12 Months.

Admitted within the last 12 Months.

Swansea, N. S.
Boys'

Infant

1 to 9 g. 179

Swansea, N. S., Boys' and Girls'.-Inspected 20th February, 1849. Well organized, under a master, assistant, and mistress; all aided by monitors. 2. Discipline well main

previous training. 4. Much behind-hand; writing bad. 5. Mistress pleasing in personal demeanour, of good temper, and willing; but deficient in instruction. 6. Partly

1. Organization.

General Report for 1848-9, by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, JOSEPH FLETCHER, Esq., on British and Denominational Schools.

CONTENTS.

OCCUPATION of time during the past year and a half

Wesleyan Schools on the Glasgow plan, a new class

Character of their support, compared with that of British schools

Ages of the children in each class of schools

Character, training, and methods of the teachers in the Wesleyan Schools Experience of their system, and views of the Wesleyan Education Committee upon it

259

259

.

261

Extensive effect of the employment of Pupil-Teachers upon the organization and efficiency of each class of schools

Want of logical purpose in the present education of the faculties by collective

lessons

Moral yet greater than intellectual progress, with the aid of pupil-teachers.
Satisfactory progress of the pupil-teachers themselves

Ability of teachers, and means of making their certificates a more exact test of it, as educators

Operation of grants in augmentation of teachers' salaries

Instruction which it conveys to the promoters of every class of schools for the education of the poorer classes

Reasons why it is not universally adopted

. 280

. 282

Good results of the present system of public aid to popular education

• 282

Its actual adoption more extensive than that of the system of grants for building. 286 Table of the pupil-teacher schools, their apprentices and children Neglect of their Lordships' provisions for stipendiary monitors. Proposed use of them to the general elevation of second-rate schools, especially in the districts most needing aid, which are least affected by those for pupilteachers

Peculiar claims of Welsh Schools, of a nearly self-supporting character Peculiar claims of Ragged Schools, with no self-supporting element . Proposal for the compulsory education and deportation of juvenile vagrants Completion of statistical investigation pursued in former reports, as to the moral results of popular education as now conducted Map of gross commitments for six years, showing excess in the metropolitan and western counties of England. Remaining excess in the Southern and Eastern agricultural counties, especially those with domestic manufactures, and in the manufacturing districts Concentration or dispersion does not necessarily or invariably affect the proportion of commitments, though there is a general coincidence of their excess with con

299

301

centration Excess of crime in the metropolis, the South Midland and Eastern agricultural counties, and the more Southern manufacturing counties, and especially those with domestic or dispersed manufactures

Higher organization of rural industry which appears to coincide with the greater amount of crime.

Excess of real property in proportion to population rather coincident with, than opposed to, excess of crime

Necessity, therefore, for higher moral character coincidently with enlarged agricultural as enlarged manufacturing industry

*Being those in which the authorized version of the Seriptures is daily used, whether without Catechisms, on the principles of the British and Foreign School Society, or with them, on those of the several Protestant denominations which admit to their schools children exempted, on the requisition of their parents, from learning such Catechisms.