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Joseph Lancaster

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number

Joseph Lancaster

Education

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Joseph Lancaster is urging those who care about young people to take action to improve their education. He wants to stop the current situation where the quality of a child's education is left to chance, with only a few benefiting despite many children needing help.

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