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content myself with broad lights and shades. The following answers are extracts, and, in some few cases, abstracts ; they convey the general tone of the several replies as nearly as possible.
The groups under which I have sorted them are these :
Merits:
Education praised throughout,
or nearly so . 10 replies
Variety of subjects . 10
A little science at school 3 „ „ Simple things well taught 3 „ „ Liberty and leisure . 3 „
„ Home teaching and en
couragement . . 8 „
Merits and demerits balanced , 4 „
Demerits :
Narrow Narrow education . 32 „ „ Want of system and bad
teaching . 10 „
„ Unclassed . 4 „
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Total . 8 7
