Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Endowed Schools Act
- 1 The shaping of Section 12
- 2 The men who rejected the dead hand
- 3 The money problem
- 4 Opponents
- 5 Supporters
- 6 What was achieved
- 7 The changeover of 1874
- 8 The long haul
- 9 The Charity Commission spirit
- 10 The women's movement in the later years
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
6 - What was achieved
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Endowed Schools Act
- 1 The shaping of Section 12
- 2 The men who rejected the dead hand
- 3 The money problem
- 4 Opponents
- 5 Supporters
- 6 What was achieved
- 7 The changeover of 1874
- 8 The long haul
- 9 The Charity Commission spirit
- 10 The women's movement in the later years
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
We have no doubt that the broad and comprehensive spirit in which Lord Lyttelton and his colleagues have provided for girls' education will be productive of incalculable blessings to many thousands of the rising generation.
Journal of the Women's Education Union, 1873Output
Even a simple, unopposed case took at least a year, said the Endowed Schools Commissioners when they reported in 1872 on their progress in working the Act. A difficult case would need at least two, while if difficulties were joined to opposition, it was hard to say how much time would be required. By way of illustration they cited Bristol, where they had begun work in 1870 but did not expect to have settled the Schemes ‘for at least some months to come’. In the event this proved too sanguine. The Bristol Schemes were not finally settled until 1875, along with many others which had been completed by the Commissioners and forwarded to the Education Department before the end of their term of office but which received the Royal Assent only later.
In view of all this it is not surprising to find that at the end of their five years' labour they had made Schemes for scarcely more than onetenth of the three thousand endowments which came within their purview. Some of these had had to be for elementary schools. So far as secondary schooling was concerned, they could claim credit at the end of the day for one hundred and thirty schools for boys, forty-seven for girls and a mixed school, at Thornton.
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- Feminists and BureaucratsA Study in the Development of Girls' Education in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 103 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1980