Illiteracy and Education Efforts in Manchester

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 15

Illiteracy and Education Efforts in Manchester

—Manchester, England, with a population of 500,000, has 50,000 adults that can neither read nor write. But earnest efforts are being made to better this unhappy condition of things. Attendance of children on the public schools is compulsory, and a large number of evening classes have been opened by the School Board. Owens College also has evening classes, where for a small fee a young man may pursue a thorough collegiate education, and take his degree at the London University.