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[We allow our Gossiper full latitude in. (he expres* non of his opinions without undertaking any Editorialresponsibility for them. ]About thirty years ago 1 d Brougham made the notable exprt ,ion, “The sehoolmaste is abroad,” and very day since has given proof to the truth of that oracular utterance; and none more, perhaps, than those comprised within the past fortnight Truly, for some jars before as after the date of that remarkablesaying, the pedagogue has been gone on his trav Is.The rise and oread of Schools of Art and similar institutions, of which the Watt Institution at Edinburgh founded by Mr. Leonard Horner n 1821 or 1822 (andstill a flourishing establishment), was the first, that stimulated the intellectual powers of the mechanic, who, easting from off him the slough acquired n the workshop, became at once elevated to a higher position social standing; and incidentally, from the healthy character of the elements of science taught in those « people’s colleges ” the gap between the peer and the peasant, the divine and the layman, seems, from late experience, to have been almost bridged over, for since they may he said to meet in mutual good-will on the keystone to discuss freely the most abstruse as well aa the mo3t interesting subjects which tend to improve the condition of mankind.
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Englishman
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Sep 26, 1863
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