Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. Appendix Volume 13 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...40 pretty efficiently and 10 highly satisfactorily, including the Teachers of the Huntingdon Academy. The proportion by the first comparison is in favour of the male Teachers by 13, and that of the second in favour of the women by one. By these comparisons, I think the services of female Teachers are not to be despised. School-houses and their Grounds.--School-houses and their grounds are nearly in the same state in which they were when I last Reported. Private conveniences for children have been built for two or th' ee, and a number have been considerably repaired. Two new School-houses have been built, one in Hinchinbrooke, No. 1, of stone, and one in Hemmingford, No 20, in wood.--See Report of these. School Funds.--No full statement of School Funds can be given till the end of the scholastic year. Till then the accounts of the Secretary-Treasurers remain open. Teachers, Education of, &c.--The efficiency of Schools depends on the efficiency of Teachers. Who ever heard of an efficient School with an inefficient Teacher? To have a body of intelligent, well-trained, and religious Teachers, devoted to their work, is one of the greatest blessings any community can have. A certain distinguished writer declares, " That there is no office higher than that of a Teacher of " youth, for there is nothing on earth so precious as the mind, soul, and character ' of the child. " And the work of rightly training that mind, is a work which, in importance and value, yields to no other. The first minds in the community should be encouraged to assume it; and could such' be prevailed upon to enlist in the grand cause of training the young, a few years would be sufficient to work a fundamental revolution in society. One great cause of the...