A Central Society of Education bas recently been established in
Londoo. Its object is to procure accurate educational statistics, with a view to ascertain bow far the different systems in use among the various classes of society are susceptible of improvement. The labours of the Committee of die Society will be divided under five heads,—Ist, Primary or Elementary Education ; 2d. Secondary Education ; 3d, Superior or University Education; 4th, Special or Professional Edu- cation ; 5th, Supplementary Education. It is said that much good niay be effected by this society ; for whose exertions a very wide field in- deed lies open. Its usefulness depends upon the discretion, care, and in- dustry with which ite inquiries are prosecuted ; and we are glad to see on the Committee the names of several gentlemen likely to make the society an instrument of much practical good. Mr. Thomas Wyse, is the Chairman of Committees ; and he will have the assist-. ance, among others, of Mr. William Allen, Mr. Howard Elphinstone, Mr. Edward Bulwer, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Ewart, Lord King, Mr. Ward, Mr. Strutt, Mr. Ashton Yates, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, and Mr. A. Hill.
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