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The Civil Service and The Common Schools
February 5, 1885 issue

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The article focuses on common-school education. It seems to flow naturally from all this that the State should encourage and stimulate popular education by using places in the public service to reward it. In England, in 1870, the establishment of common schools, supported by general taxation, was accompanied by the throwing open of the civil and military service to competitive examination, thus giving the sons of the poorest and humblest men in the country a fair chance of filling places in the Government service, which had previously been reserved for the younger sons of the gentry.

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PUBLIC schools; EDUCATION; CIVIL service; AWARDS; TAXATION; EXAMINATIONS; POOR
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