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The "great fact", on which the Revised Code rests, tried by its own witnesses and proved to be a great fallacy : or, A fourfold proof, from the data of the commissioners' report, showing that one-half of the scholars in the inspected schools reach the first class, where most of them, by the repeated testimony of the commissioners, receive an excellent education

Archive Print part: Education 370.94208/KAY

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Title: The "great fact", on which the Revised Code rests, tried by its own witnesses and proved to be a great fallacy : or, A fourfold proof, from the data of the commissioners' report, showing that one-half of the scholars in the inspected schools reach the first class, where most of them, by the repeated testimony of the commissioners, receive an excellent education

Level: Piece

Classmark: Education 370.94208/KAY

Creator(s): Birks, T R (1810-1883)

Publisher: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1862

Language: English

Size and medium: 11, [1] p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/378119

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008981549705181

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Bound in volume lettered "Revised Code pamphlets II", containing: 1. Kay-Shuttleworth, James, Sir. Letter to Earl Granville, K.G. -- 2. Coleridge, Derwent. The education of the people -- 3. Coleridge, Derwent. The teachers of the people -- 4. Menet, John. The Revised Code -- 5. Birks, T. R. The Revised Code -- 6. Birks, T. R. The "great fact" -- 7. Hort, Fenton John Anthony. Thoughts on the Revised Code of Education -- 8. Grote, John. A few words on the new educational code -- 9. The twice-revised code -- 10. Smith, Benjamin Frederick. A letter to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury -- 11. Richson, Charles. The Revised Code

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