Overpressure in Education an Inevitable Consequence of Payment by Results:

A Protest and a Warning to Parents.

By Alfred J. Taylor,

Librarian Tasmanian Public Library, and Honorary and Corresponding Member of the Howard Association, London.

Mr. Girling, at a recent meeting of the Executive of the National Union of Elementary Teachers, referred to the case of a child who had then just died of brain-fever, whose continual cry in his last delirium was "I can't get it right! I can't get it right!"

Hobart Printed At "The Mercury" Office, Macquarie Street.

1885.