COLL P 03 02 01 10B
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COLL P 03 02 01 10B
Title
Provost Goodford: Letter from Sir Thomas Dyke Acland
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Date
1 January 1859
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Acknowledges letter from Goodford. Boys respect his straightforwardness. No doubt his objections to putting modern languages into regular school hours are right but it is a serious matter. Curious that Goodford mentions what he himself suggested in a letter to Johnson, namely making French an optional subject in the school examination. Has had a letter from Mr Hawtrey and if voluntary mathematics give scope for teaching those who benefit or who need it he is satisfied but feels that 3 hours a week is not enough to teach Euclid and algebra as well as arithmetic. Mathematical School a thoroughly subordinate element admitted on sufferance. Comments on First Annual Report of the Delegacy of Examinations; public schools may need to pay more attention to English grammar.
PLACE: Sprydoncote, Exeter
PLACE: Sprydoncote, Exeter
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ALS. 2 bifolia. Incomplete
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