Report of the Minister of EducationOntario Education Department, 1852 - Education |
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... Reverend Daniel Clarke , Charlottenburgh , & c .: " In presenting my Report as Superintendent of Common Schools for the townships of Charlottenburgh and Kenyon for the year 1851 , I may remark that since the present excellent School Act ...
... Reverend Daniel Clarke , Charlottenburgh , & c .: " In presenting my Report as Superintendent of Common Schools for the townships of Charlottenburgh and Kenyon for the year 1851 , I may remark that since the present excellent School Act ...
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... Reverend John Edwards , Clarence , & c .: " The inhabitants of this county are widely scattered ; many of them are commencing to clear the bush , roads in many parts bad , schools few and far between , good teachers fewer , and ...
... Reverend John Edwards , Clarence , & c .: " The inhabitants of this county are widely scattered ; many of them are commencing to clear the bush , roads in many parts bad , schools few and far between , good teachers fewer , and ...
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... Reverend W. Lochead , Osgoode , & c .: " A deeper interest in the cause of education is manifested in these two townships , by parents and trustees ; visits and lectures attended by increasing numbers : teachers and scholars excited to ...
... Reverend W. Lochead , Osgoode , & c .: " A deeper interest in the cause of education is manifested in these two townships , by parents and trustees ; visits and lectures attended by increasing numbers : teachers and scholars excited to ...
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... Reverend James Geggie , Edwardsburgh : " Our report shows that there is a great want of school requisites , both external and internal . There is however a begin- ning made , and we trust the trustees and parents generally , will become ...
... Reverend James Geggie , Edwardsburgh : " Our report shows that there is a great want of school requisites , both external and internal . There is however a begin- ning made , and we trust the trustees and parents generally , will become ...
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13. The Reverend W. J. McDowell , Oxford , & c : " There is much opposition to ' the free school system ' in many portions of the townships of which I have been superintendent for the last year , though many schools have fallen in with ...
13. The Reverend W. J. McDowell , Oxford , & c : " There is much opposition to ' the free school system ' in many portions of the townships of which I have been superintendent for the last year , though many schools have fallen in with ...
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12th section adopted Amount received annual school meeting apparatus apportioned apportionment assessment attendance of pupils average attendance Belleville Brantford Brockville Bytown certificates Chief Superintendent clause Cobourg Council of Public county clerk county council duties EDUCATION OFFICE EGERTON RYERSON establishment Female free school system furnished Goderich Grammar improvement increase Instruction for Upper interest Journal of Education Legislative School Grant local superintendent Male maps mode Model Schools months municipal council Normal School number of children number of pupils number of schools Oshawa parents parties persons Perth population Port Hope present principle procuring progress Province Public Instruction qualified rate-bill religious persuasion remarks Reverend RYERSON School Act school fund school law school moneys school section school trustees school-houses Schools in Upper separate schools Simcoe Stormont Superintendent of Schools teaching tion Toronto Total number Township of March UNITED COUNTIES Upper Canada village Welland
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Page 222 - ... by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue, and of knowledge, in an early age. We hope to excite a feeling of respectability, and a sense of character, by enlarging the capacity, and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion...
Page 18 - Belief, and the Lord's Prayer ; and shall diligently hear, instruct, and teach them the Catechism set forth in the Book of Common Prayer...
Page 222 - ... we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property and life and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age.
Page 277 - ... the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Page 180 - I do declare and affirm that I am, and have been, for the thirty days last past, an actual resident of this school district and that I am qualified to vote at this meeting.
Page 222 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he himself have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and...
Page 180 - Chairman of such meeting shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the meeting, and...
Page 222 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that, by the diffusion of general knowledge and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow, but sure, undermining of licentiousness.
Page 277 - ... virtues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty, as well as to promote their future happiness ; and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices.
Page 157 - Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and intituled "An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada...