The necessity of educating the people : a lecture delivered before the Maltese Literary and Scientific Society, on the 4th of March 1865

Abstract

Preface.

The attention of the Council of Government has again been called to a most important question, which has for many years been most sadly neglected - the Education Question. In the earnest hope of facilitating the solution of that question, the following remarks are again submitted for consideration.

Though published more than five years ago, those observations and suggestions are just as applicable to the public educational institutions, as they were in March, 1865; for the Report of the Commissioners, presented in June of the same year, was most unaccountably shelved, and nothing whatever has since been done towards improving a department so umistakably censured by a Commission appointed by Government, after the most careful and attentive deliberation. [Excerpt]