PRICE OF EDUCATION.
trr is asked in the newspapers (Morning Herald, Thursday), in reference to the loviness'of prices, why education should continue so dear—why; for instance,. the expense of educating eaelrboy 'at a public School should cost more than the average income of all the parochial clergy in the kingdom ; and why a youth's charges at the University should be more than a major in the army has to support himself upon ? This would be a reasonable question, if these expenses had ever borne any rational proportion to prices at all. The expenses of a boy at a public school, or of a young man at the University, turn upon the cost of vice. For instance, at Cambridge, no young man is bound to expend more than 1001. or 1201. a year, whereas it is very rare that his bills fall short of three or four hundred. What is called pleasure costs the same whether mutton is dear or cheap. If learning were alone learned, education might be afforded cheap. For fifty or sixty pounds a year, a hundred times the in- struction bestowed or received at the Universities might be ob- tained, in a properly-regulated establishment ; and this may be said without the slightest disparagement of the learned teachers of these institutions. The truth is, it is not the fashion to learn at the Universities • and the lecturers and tutors cannot procure attend- ance from the greater part of the students, ONE DAY IN FIVE FOR AN HOUR A DAY.
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