Excerpt from The Educational Condition and Requirements of One Square Mile in the East-End of London: Prepared at the Request of the Council of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce IN issuing the Second Edition of this pamphlet the writer would wish to state the origin of the inquiry contained in it, and how he was led to undertake it. Early this year, at the meetings of the Educational Committee of the Council of the Society of Arts, the subject of enforcing parents of the poorest and most degraded class of the community to send their children to school, formed a subject of discussion. The writer was a member of this Committee, and saw the im mense difficulty of the subject and the conflicting opinions as to the working of any compulsory measure. In order to obtain some practical information, he volunteered to select as bad a part of London as he could find, and by residing in the midst of the people, by visiting them, and by talking to them in their homes in a friendly way, to extract, as far as was possible, their opinions, and the Sentiments with which they were likely to receive any great Educa tional measure. By this means he hoped to obtain information from the very people for whose benefit chiefly, the present educational measure is being framed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.