Excerpt from The Schools of Christendom, II. The Decay of Greek and Latin: The Fruit of Pretence of Teaching, Long Employed in Private and Public Schools; The True Method of Teaching Language, Ancient and Modern; The Imposture of Smatterings of Many Sorts of Knowledge, and of the Modern Invention of Cramming; The Science of Flog For forty-eight years of my life - 1839-40, 1885 ]886 - 1 have done What I could to set before the Bishops, Priests, and People of the Church of England, the inherent character and certain fruit of what has gone by the name of The Educational Policy of the Civil Power of England, 1832-1886. For some fifteen years, 1832-1847, to use the ex pression of its principal author - the late Sir J ames Kay Shuttleworth, the Policy was unostentatious. For the remaining thirty-nine years as ostenta tious as he could have desired. 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.