Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community,

IN

EDUCATION,

AS IT RESPECTS THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES

OF THE

COMMUNITY,

CONTAINING,

AMONG OTHER IMPORTANT PARTICULARS,

An Accour f the Institution for the Education of
HOUSAND POOR CHILDREN,

ONE

BOROUGH ROAD, SOUTHWARK;

AND OF THE NEW SYSTEM OF EDUCATION ON WHICH IT IS
CONDUCTED.

BY JOSEPH LANCASTER.

"All nations, indeed, of which we have any account, in be
coming rich, have become profligate; a torrent of depraved morality has,
in every opulent state, borne down with irresistible violence those mounds
and fences, by which the wisdom of legislators attempted to protect chastity,
sobriety, and virtue. If any check can be given to the corruption of a state
increasing in riches and declining in morals, it must be given, not by laws
enacted to alter the inveterate habits of men, but by education`adapted
to form the hearts of children to a proper sense of moral and religions
excellence."-Bishop of Landaff's Charge, 1788.

THIRD EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

London:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY DARTON AND HARVEY, GRACECHURCH-
STREET; SOLD ALSO BY W. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY,

1805.