Report of the Board of Education Volume 1-2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...for want of a teacher, a deficiency which, he thinks, might have been mado good by the School Board. He reports that--"in some of the schools the teaching is able and intelligent, the scholars interested in their studies, and the discipline admirable. Such schools, however, are not the rule, nor can they be under present conditions; they receive no encouragement from their Boards and voluntary school managers, and the teachers have to take the entire financial risk on their own shoulders." (By this I understand the risk that the numbers should drop below the County Council limits, owing to unattractiveness, and thus the work so far done by the teachers entirely thrown away.) The schools are also hampered by the rules of the County Council forbidding work to be continued for more than a certain number of hours, and by the limit of numbers. Thus--"the teaching of many a subject is dropped as soon as it has been taught the minimum fifteen hours." In Mr. Wilkinson's opinion it is absolutely necessary to abolish the lu. 6rf. limit, and pay by block grants. Mr. Fisher presents me with a very valuable and detailed report on Plymouth his Continuation Schools, 131 in number, forty-eight town schools and District, eighty-three in the country. The subjects taken in the town schools are principally arithmetic (thirty-nine schools), reading and writing, or writing and composition (forty-seven), but in addition to these almost the entire curriculum is covered in one town school or another, with the exception of physiography, elementary physics and chemistry, and agriculture. In the country schools arithmetic occurs in fortyfive, one of the writing subjects in forty-eight, mensuration in thirtyfau-. The subjects omitted in all country schools are recit...