Punishment is not Education

In 1854 Charles Adderley was responsible for the Young Offenders Act (a part of his ‘reformatory’ policy), and he introduced the Manchester and Salford Education Bill, in which a local education rate was first proposed. In Punishment is not Education (1856) and in his Tract on Tickets of Leave (1857) he pushed further his plea that education might cure crime more effectively than punishment.

On 21 June 1858, in moving the education vote, he gave the first official estimate of the cost of a national system of elementary education: he put the amount at a million pounds per annum. At the same time he pointed out that that was the first day on which the University of Oxford was conducting its middle-class examinations throughout the country, and was thereby inaugurating a new correlation of the universities to national life. Next day the first royal commission on elementary education was announced.




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.............In the same year he introduced without success an education bill which aimed at making education compulsory. In Derby's third administration of 1866 Adderley became under-secretary for the colonies, and was immediately confronted by the difficult case of Governor Edward John Eyre whom he controversially defended from the attacks of John Stuart Mill and others. In the same session he carried through the House of Commons the British North America Act (1867), which created the dominion of Canada. Amid his parliamentary occupations, Adderley published Europe Incapable of American Democracy (1867), in which he sought to reconcile his Conservative faith with advanced ideas of social freedom and progress.

.....In his speech in the upper house on the education code of May 1882 (reprinted as a pamphlet) he practically advocated free education and protested against the complexity of the code with its detailed system of payment by results. He sat on the reformatory and industrial schools commission (1883) and on the education commissions of 1883–4 and 1887.