It was far too modern for 1843. Parliamentary Government can only operate ...

It was far too modern for 1843. Parliamentary Government can only operate with the equipment and feelings of the current age. The Voluntary Schools were there.

And any attempt at educational reform had to reckon with the most intense of Victorian emotions, sectarian animosity. It must be allowed for everywhere, and a few years later it flamed up with a vehemence which consumed the most promising experiment yet projected.

Immediately on his appointment Kay-Shuttleworth produced, and the Committee of Council accepted, a plan for a Training College, complete with model school and practising school. It broke down on the question of religious instruction.