[PDF] Documentary History Of Education In Upper Canada From The Passing Of The Constitutional Act Of 1791 To The Close Of The Reverend Doctor Ryersons Administration In 1876 Vol 26 1874 1875 eBook

Author : J. George Hodgins
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Page : 308 pages
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Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781330569474

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Excerpt from Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada, Vol. 25: From the Passing of the Constitutional Act of 1791, to the Close of the Reverend Doctor Ryerson's Administration of the Education Department in 1876; 1871-1874, Forming an Appendix to the Annual of the Minister of Education The most noteworthy Educational event which occurred in 1873, as recorded in this Volume, was the adoption by Members of the Provincial Council of Public Instruction of a strongly worded Petition to the House of Assembly against what they regarded as the arbitrary conduct towards them by the Government of the Day. Rather than attempt to give a summary of the objections of Members of the Council to the action of the Government in this matter, I give it in their own words from the Petition, as follows: - That, in consequence of certain statements and imputations against this Council and the Education Department, the Honourable Edward Blake, then President of the Executive Council, brought in a Bill last Session of the Legislature, which was passed into an Act, declaring that, "The Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council shall have power to cause enquiry to be made into the working of any Rules, Regulations, Instructions, or Recommendations, which have been, or may be, made, or issued, by the Council of Public Instruction, or by the Chief Superintendent of Education; and to abrogate, suspend, or modify, any such Rules, Regulations, Instructions, or Recommendations." That, as contemplated by this Act, the Government instituted a most severe and exhaustive inquisition into the acts of this Council since 1867, requiring explanations, statutory authority and also reasons for every proceeding, and act of this Council in regard to the following subjects: (1) The Preparation, Publications, Sanctioning and Providing of Text Books for the Public and High Schools. (2) The Examination of, and Certificates of Qualification to. Public School Teachers. (3) The Management and Teaching of the Normal and Model Schools. (4) The Programmes, Course of Study, and General Regulations for the Organization, Government, Discipline and Inspection of the Public and High Schools. (5) The Official Regulations, providing for Adequate Accommodations in the Public Schools. (6) Special Regulations for the admission of Pupils to the High Schools. (7) Various Miscellaneous matters. That the Council promptly and fully answered every Enquiry and Demand of the Government, and assured its ready Obedience to every Order and Instruction which the Government had issued, or might issue, explaining and giving Statutory Authority for each Regulation, or Recommendation, which it had made since 1867; and this Council believes that the Chief Superintendent of Education, an ex-officio Member of this Council, gave, in like manner, the Authority and Reasons which were required of him for his Acts and Instructions. That when your Honourable House had passed an Act to make thorough Enquiries into the then impugned Regulations and Acts of this Council; and when that Enquiry has been made in a manner of thoroughness and severity very unusual, if not unprecedented, this Council submits that it is justly due to its character and past labours, that its Answers in explanation of its own Acts, and in reply to the Charges preferred against it, should be laid before Your Honourable House and printed for the information of Members and of the Public. That the Members of this Council are prepared at any moment to retire from the position and work which they have so long sustained; but they deem it due to themselves, as it is the right of the humblest Subject of the Queen, to be heard in their own Defence before having their labours of more than twenty-five years legislatively stamped, as they have been, with the character of "Inefficiency."

Author : J. George Hodgins
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781330495933

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Excerpt from Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada, Vol. 26: From the Passing of the Constitutional Act of 1791 to the Close of the Reverend Doctor Ryerson's Administration of the Education Department in 1876 This Volume contains a more than ordinary amount of interesting records of educational work done and progress made in Ontario during the year to which it refers. The several Statutes relating not only to the Public and Separate Schools, but also to the High Schools and Collegiate Institutes, underwent a careful revision. An addition of several new Sections was incorporated in appropriate places in the revised d104, and the whole, when thus prepared, was consolidated, - the one part into a Statute, relating to the Public and Separate Schools, and the other part into a Law dealing with the Council of Public Instruction, the High Schools, and the Collegiate Institutes. The object of this revision, amendment and consolidation of these several Educational Acts was not only to improve the condition of these Schools, and the Collegiate Institutes, but especially to improve the status, and render more efficient our system of Normal School training. A new Normal School, which had been erected at Ottawa, was put into successful operation, and in the formal opening of which, the Lieutenant-Governor, the Attorney-General, the Chief Superintendent of Education, and the new Minister who was to succeed Doctor Ryerson, took part. A prolonged and interesting Correspondence between the Attorney-General and the Chief Superintendent of Education, took place in 1874, on the subject of the revised and improved School Laws. As, in this Correspondence, the various improvements and amendments, which had been suggested, were fully stated and discussed, I have thought it desirable to insert in a separate chapter, (Number III). A formal attack on our Educational Depository, (in an elaborate Letter to the Attorney-General), was made by a Toronto Bookseller, - and which he afterwards embodied in a printed Pamphlet, - was replied to by the Chief Superintendent, and, in a Letter to the Attorney-General, he took a comprehensive view of the whole matter, showing that the prompt and efficient supply of Maps, Apparatus, Books and School material, for use in the Schools was just as important and necessary as was the supply of trained and efficient Teachers. He also quoted the strong commendation of our Depository system by distinguished Educationists in the United States, as well as the equally strong and unanimous endorsement of it by a Select Committee of the House of Assembly, and also, as the result of the practical experience of our own Public School Inspectors. In order to deal effectively with the troublesome question of Vagrant and Truant Children, as one mode of giving effect to the principle of compulsory education, where Free Schools existed, a Draft of Bill was prepared by the Chief Superintendent to establish Industrial Schools in the Cities and larger Towns of Ontario, to which that class of children could be sent by a Magistrate, on the complaint of a School Trustee, or a Ratepayer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.