Excerpt from The University of Liverpool: Its Present StateA further difficulty arose from the fact that secondary education in this district was in an extremely backward condition, so that the majority even of those students who did come were apt to be inadequately prepared. They might be (and Often were) men of mature minds and considerable ability. But they had not had a fair chance of Obtaining a good school training, and it appeared to be impossible to exact from them at first the standard at entrance which a University ought to impose. The consequence was that the University College had for a number Of years to undertake part Of the work Of a school as well as the work of a University. That has now wholly ceased, but while it lasted it naturally aroused the hostility of those schools which were conducted on a high standard, and with which the College (against its will) appeared to be competing. Many thought that this condition of things showed that the College had been prematurely founded, and that the system of secondary education should first have been perfected. The answer to this was (and is) that one of the causes for the backwardness of secondary education is the absence of a sufficient supply of highly-trained teachers, a defect which can only be met by the institution of Universities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.