May This Plain Statement Of Facts Prevail On The Friends Of The Rising Generation To Interpose For Their Welfare; That The Education Of Children May No Longer Be To Parent And Master A Lottery, In Which The Prizes Bear No Proportion To The Enormous Number Of Blanks. - SearchQuotes

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May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.

Joseph Lancaster

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