11 SEPTEMBER 1869, Page 17

COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Stu„—In your short notice about compulsory education in last week's number, you say that all that is necessary is" to make all pay- ment of wages to a child illegal, unless the child spends 180 days of every year at school." I hope you will allow me to point out that this does not touch a case which from nearly three years' experience of a ragged school I know to be rather a common one, viz., when the parents take the children away from school to assist them (the parents) at home, a case not involving the question of " wages " at all. This, I fear, nothing but a. fine will reach.—I am,