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\ Secure a third--class certificate 'at. th:O::g & th:dx?;fii: uiiti'::ppz:rdln;lfi the inspectors -- S of 15 years, _ The High Schools were also Pecame better acquainted with the true na-- | much improved. They were formerly places ture of their duties It was a fortunate at which the childreh of a favoured few o thing tor the country that there was at least acquire a perfectly useless smattering of one department of the public service into ' the dead languages, --Now, however, the which party feelings 'were not allowed to C ?grmmne ly:t.ei:: :nu :)een introduced, and intrude. 3 e course o struc lon was eminent! g i A ' practical. . Exoeption. had been taken to i7 istolpand pmoireigs Anireied on | the system of education on account of its s cdou E h ideri school Boards by teachers who engage to s expenso. But considering what the people fill vacaucies, and then fail to fullil their C themselves had spent, he thought their re. 6 ; 'emems' » ;* s presentatives were justified in <expending ®MAS is pekl f e the money. In 1844 there were 96,000 Mr. CROOKS explained that he had | g pupils attending the Common Schools, and regramed from ask.mg thc. House to :?ppro- M ~ "n 1874 the uumber had incrgaged to 464.00 priate any sum for instructing NormalSchool o C> or an average yearly increaso otf 12,24g. ) students, partly because at present the f . on The number of teachers employed in 1844 \ cime and energies of teachex were too i 3 / ;%' f was 2,706, and in 1874 5,736--an average® much taken -- up with-- teathing the PA +.4 yearly increase of 101. 'The increase in ordinary rudiments> of education to / s schools had been trom 2,505 in 1844 to admit of teaching the subject in E_ | 4,827 in 1874, or 77 yearly. _ In salaries, in Public Schools, and partly because . 6 & e $ 1844 there was expended $206,000, while in there was every likelihood that betore long [ 0 e j 1874 this item had reached $1,674,000, Of schools of gookery wguld Ro established for + C y3 I $48,029 of yearly increase. 'Fhe total ¢x-- the training of teachérs and others in the t t ~ M ( penditure in the two years was respectively culinary art. He aunounced-- that he had Oe _ $275,000 and $2,865,730, or an average in-- under consideration the question of holi-- § e > ' creaso 'of $86,344 per annum. This days for Public School pupils, and the best ) WB t (BH showed what the people bad been time for holding them, 'The clause in the 4 4 in' : | willing to do for the cause of education. School Bill referred to by Dr. Clarke was & e _ He combatted the idea that the High School due to the fact that there was a large stock 11 yd inspection could be done by two men, claim-- of books in the Depository, from which 1 8 c ing that as a noted Enpglish educationist it --seemed to him _ expedient _ to ( 1e 0| said, " Inspection is the life of the school." issue books to School Boards to the | td is He did not believe, however, they amount of the Government 100 per cent. o should have extra pay for _ their on their purchase money. He did not see 7| i e -- work on the Examining Board. . A regu-- his way clear to reducing the number of | C e 20e . | latr salary should be given, and these | High School inspectors without interfering | 10% ) | gentlemen asked to devote their whole i with their efliciency. . The salary was none [ € j time to the work. He questioned the too high in view of the extensive scholar-- is C m utility of the intermediate examinations. ship and experience required, 'The inspec. : + It might be said they served as stimulants, + tors were not now paid as large salaties as h but even stimulants should be taken in | many others doing less arduous work and ' c x > moderation, 'Ihe regular examinations, | requiring less extensive attainments. He 4 ' » and that for entrance to the High School, | paid them a high tribute for their attain-- 4i h. . Adtie .+ 1 were, he believed, quite enough,. Heclosed | ments and the manuer in which they dis-- { * ' by alluding in eulogistic terms to the charged their duties, Cases ot violation ' e manner in which the Minister of Education of -- engagements between trustces and 118 *3 haa conducted the work ot his Department. teachers were covered by the general prin-- t k w E (Cheers.) ciples of Iaw and by the special provisions | ' Mr. LAUDER objected to the cost of already embodied in the School Act., g W High School inspection, and also to some The item was then carried, as were also | D inen 6 , of the other items under the head ot educa-- the following :--$;9,250 _tor Public and i f ti' 4 tion. 'There were in many parts of the Separate School iuspection ; $12,000 for ced CE .3 country complaints against some features schools in new and poor townships ; $75,. % [ "~"% of the school system, but they were dying 500 for grauts to High Schouls and Collegi-- * 1R § 3 ' out, and with a little tact on the part of in« ate Institutes. , 14 f + spectors would soon cease to be heard. On the motion to grant the sum otf $7,500 o f a) 1 | All parties should unite in the endeavour for the Inspection of High Schools and Col. [ Cafals to keep the school system free from con-- legiate Institutes some further discussion o § 1sY nection with party politics. & took place. s 1 d §3 Mr. CURRIE complimented the Minister Mr. CODE thought the sum paid was too i [ ME 3 ot Education on his interesting accounts of the large for the work done, He would have * % working of, the school system, and the «il the old County Board certificates can-- | f House on the fair spirit in which the ques-- | celled, and made some observations on the | o E tion had been approached. He cited some | case of the Carleton Place High School. C [OP , statistics to illustrate the progress of educa. The item then passed, as did T46 the f1. 5 : \h t tion in the Proymcp, ';"_"' pl&ssudl high | lowing :--$7,500 for Departmental exami-- £ eulogium on the Public Schools. | nations ; $14,550 for the training ofteachers; {| id Mr. CLARKE (Norfolk) deprecated any $39,900 tor superannuated teachers ; $22,600 $ | *\ attempt to compel intending purchasers of for the Toronto Normal and Model Schools ; [1 } 3 prize and library books to resort once more §11,500 for the Ottawa Normal School ; ! ; K to the Depository at 'Toronto, instead of $1,925 for the Educational Museum and . Lt y purchasing from local booksellers, as they library ; $22,000 for maps, apparatus, and . s have been in the habit of doing for some liprary books ; $9,035 for the Educational | 1k years past. He would like to see the Depository ; $21,175 for the Education De. // 1 N t & date of the teachers' examination chang-- partment ; and $2,500 for miscellancous = i| 48 .";;) 3 ed to April, on the gropnd that expenges. 18 | ) | ,'% § midsummer weathor was unsuitable for | f After a brief discussion, the items of 1 & 3 U i work which imposed so great a strain on l $38,261 53 for the Deaf and Dumb lnstitu. hk & candidates. tution at Belleville, and $29,315 for the iBE El Mr. DEROCHE described the condit(ilon l Blind Asylum at Brautford, were passed. i P of the new townships with respect to edu-- i of $27 or 1 i T T.A cation, and assured the House that but for fi?";:fi::' DITks[ éfi%ggt:drt;!::? igx;":;?i?' VW ds the grant to poor schools many dmtl;l'cts ture not rendered absolutely necessary by P §,; -- would be left destitute altogether, . 'The the agreement with the Dominion Govern. UA 7 « cost of High School inspection seemed to ent . A Te him somewhat great. . 'The sum of $2,000 * ; | f f and travelling ixpenses seemed to him Mr. HARDY explained that there were '| enough _ of _ remuneration _ for _ their other expenditures besides those specified ( s ie , whole _ time, _ including _ the _ work which could not be dispensed with, It was i . ~@ of -- examination,. _ 'The County Model necessary to keep one agent in Europe, and j « Schools had done _ excellent service, it was impossible to cut of at once + and no money bad been better spent in the appropriation for the carriage of | connection with education than the sum immigrants in Ontano_ without to some ' f | spent upon tnem, -- They were the means extent bl:eukmg faith with those who have of obviating the necessity of building new been invited to come to the country under ' Normal Schools, and the training they the system that has been for some years in f diffused was now universal , | 'The standard voguo. | of qualification was none too high, in view Mr. BISHOP maintained that the item , \ of the fact that special examinations were was not too largs, and that the farmers of | held for the new and poor districts, 'The Ontario, who felt the want ot: labourers, | centralization of the examination and would sustain the Government in making 4 * f | classification _ of -- teachers _ had, -- he it even larger than it was, secing that farm | believed, proved _ advantageous. The labourers and domestic servants were the | | school system . Was costly, and often only olasses aided or encouraged to come t | caused dissatisfaction, but no public ex-- to Ontario, & peudicure brought in a better return, and Mr. WHITE denied that any immigrants | : w