“Even if it were possible, I doubt whether it would be desirable, with a view to the real interests of the peasant boy, to keep bim at school till he was 14 or 15… We must make up our minds to see the last of him, as far as the day school is concerned, at 10 or 11… I venture to maintain that it is quite possible to teach a child soundly and thoroughly… all that it is necessary for him to possess in the shape of intellectual attainment, by the time he is 10 years old.”
Rev James Fraser, later Bishop of Manchester, when Assistant Commissioner, The Newcastle Report, 1861
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