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This work on the theory of education was first published in 1839.
The five writers had been chosen as the winners in a competition
for an essay on the 'Expediency and Means of Elevating the
Profession of the Educator in Society', organised by the Central
Society of Education, founded in 1837 to promote state funding of
education, at a time when the 'monitor' system, whereby older
children taught younger ones, was seen as an effective (and
money-saving) method. The journalist John Lalor (1814 56) won first
prize with a wide-ranging consideration of all the aspects of
education, comparing the status of teachers through history and
across several countries, and championing their 'sacred mission'.
The runners-up were the writer John A. Heraud, the Unitarian
minister Edward Higginson, the lawyer and author James Simpson, and
Mrs Sarah Porter, prolific writer on education and sister of the
political economist David Ricardo."
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