List of Joseph Lancaster Quotes

The Same Stimulus That Animates Men To Action, Will Have A Proportionate Effect On Juvenile Minds.

This System Of Encouragement Proves Serviceable As A Preventive Of Punishment, The Attainment Of The Tickets Being A Reward, The Forfeiture Of Them The Reverse; And, As Such, Boys Seem Often More Affected By Their Loss Than By Coercion.

Female Schools Might Be Comprised In The List Of Those Worthy The Public Patronage, With Great Propriety.

Mankind Are Divided Into Sects, And Individuals Think Very Differently On Religious Subjects, From The Purest Motives; And That Gracious Common Parent, Who Loves All His Children Alike, Beholds With Approbation Every One Who Worships Him In Sincerity.

We Daily Witness The Beneficial Effect Produced To The Community By The Institution Of Premiums, Held Out To Encourage The Inventions Of Ingenious Mechanics.

The Complaint Of Bad Pay, And Difficulty In Obtaining It, Is Almost Generally Reiterated Through Every Department Of Education.

When Obedience To The Divine Precepts Keeps Pace With Knowledge, In The Mind Of Any Man, That Man Is A Christian; And When The Fruits Of Christianity Are Produced, That Man Is A Disciple Of Our Blessed Lord, Let His Profession Of Religion Be What It May.

A National Evil Requires A National Remedy; Let Not This Any Longer Be Delayed: Let Your Minds Expand, Free From Every Narrow Principle, And Let The Public Good Become The Sole Object Of Your United Christian Efforts.

I Was Induced To Establish Several Orders Of Merit, From Conviction That Emulation, Well Directed, Becomes A Useful Servant; And, That The Latent Genius Of Some Youth Is More Easily Brought Into Action This Way, Than By The More Sordid Gratification Of Self-interest.

At A Moderate Calculation, Among A Million Of Persons Inhabiting The Metropolis, There Are, At Least, Twenty-five Thousand Children Who Attend These Schools, And Cost Their Parents As Many Pounds Sterling, Per Annum.

Indeed, I Am Sometimes Inclined To Doubt Whether Some Men Consider Youth As Rational And Intelligent Beings, With Minds Capable Of Expansion, And Talents Formed For Usefulness.

It Is Difficult To Speak Or Write With Becoming Moderation Or Propriety, On Topics To Which We Are Biased By Prejudice, Interest, Or Even Principle.