PART II-THE SYSTEM IN 1899; EXTRACTS FROM. THE REPORT OF THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION I. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS AND THEIR CERTIFICATES. a. Number of Public School Teachers' Certificates, 1899. b. Remarks on the Supply of Qualified Teachers. It is to be hoped that the establishment of a third Normal School will be followed by the appointment of a larger number of second-class teachers in our Public Schools than heretofore. It is unfortunate that Boards of Trustees do not yet fully realise the advantage of having in our schools teachers of high qualifications. Too often there is a disposition in some places to secure the so-called cheap teacher, regardless of the important interests involved. Teachers of character and ability cannot be expected to remain in the profession unless their services are better remunerated. Young men and young women of energy cannot be blamed should they withdraw from a profession in which they find high scholarship and valuable experience are not properly appreciated. It may be doubted if be doubted if a higher standard is exacted in other countries for teachers' certificates. In Ontario the standard has been very much advanced from what it was a dozen years ago. With the abolition of the Primary examination, a student who desires to become a teacher will ordinarily attend a High School three years, and with a year's professional training subsequently exacted, it will be readily conceded that the expense involved in entering the profession is considerable. c. Teachers in training at Various Classes of Normal Schools, 1877-1899. 1877 1887 50 1,146 1,124 1882 46 882 837 55 1,491 1,376 1892 59 1,283 1,225 1897 60 1,645 1,384 1898 60 1,288 1,166 8 c. 7,909 22 25,780 88 16 260 15 799 13,783 50 44,888 02 1899 61 1,271 1,158 10 458 24 858 20,587 41 46,949 63 10 e. Temporary and Extended Certificates issued during 1899. The periods of service were three years and under, 6; seven years and over, 20. f. Specialists' Certificates Among the "Revised Regulations" adopted in 1896 appears the following:-Any person who obtains an Honour Degree in the department of English and History, Modern Languages and History, Classics, Mathematics, or Science as specified in the calendars of any University of Ontario, and accepted by the Education Department, is entitled to the non-professional qualification of a specialist in such department. A graduate who has not taken an Honour Degree in one of the above courses is entitled to the non-professional standing of a specialist on submitting to the Education Department a certificate from the Registrar of the University that he has passed, subsequent to graduation, the examinations prescribed for each year of the Honour course of the department for which he seeks to be recognised as a specialist, and which he has not already passed in his undergraduate's course; or any examination which is recommended by the University as equivalent thereto, and accepted as such by the Education Department. Professional qualifications.-Every candidate for the professional examinations must hold the necessary non-professional standing before writing at the examinations at the Normal College for a specialist's certificate. The holder of an Assistant High School Teacher's Certificate who has the necessary nonprofessional standing is not required to attend the Normal College, but may write at the examination for specialist on the paper in "Methods" only. This paper may be taken at Hamilton or at any other place in the Province if the candidate makes arrangements with the Public School Inspector to preside. The department must be informed of such arrangements at least one month before the examination. Commercial Specialists. Any person who passes an examination in the subjects set forth in the course for Commercial Specialists (each subject to be valued at 100), and who is the holder of a High School Assistant's Certificate, obtained either before or after passing such examination, shall be entitled to a Commercial Specialist's Certificate. The course for Commercial Specialists is as follows: Book-keeping.-Single and double entry book-keeping; wholesale and retail merchandising, commission business, manufacturing; warehousing, steamboating, exchange, joint stock companies, municipalities, societies and public institutions, statements and balance-sheets, partnership adjustments, liquidation and administration of estates, auditing, filing papers, and the use of special columns and the various other expedients in book-keeping to save time and labour and secure accuracy of work. Penmanship. Theory and practice of penmanship, Spencerian and vertical; ledger headings; marking and engrossing. Commercial Arithmetic. Interest, discount, annuities certain, sinking funds, formation of interest and annuity tables, application of logarithms, stock and investments, partnership settlements, partial payments, equation of payments and exchange. Banking.-Money and its substitutes; exchange; incorporation and organisation; banks; business of banks, their relation to each other and to the business community; the clearing house system; legal requirements as to capital, shares, reserves, dividends, note issue; insolvency and consequent liability. Business Forms.-Invoices, accounts, statements, due bills, orders, receipts, wages, house receipts, deposit receipts, deposit slips, bank pass books, promissory notes, bills of exchange, bank drafts, cheques, bonds, debentures, coupons, instalment scripts, stock certificates, stock transfers, proxies, letters of credit, affidavits, balance sheets, pay sheets, time sheets and special forms of general book-keeping, books to suit special cases. Law of Business.-Contracts, statute of limitations; negotiable paper and endorsements; sales of personal property; accounts, invoices, statements, etc.; chattel mortgages; real estate and mortgages; interest; agency; partnership; corporations; guarantee and suretyship; receipts and releases; insurances; master and servant; landlord and tenant; bailment; shipping and trans portation; host and guest; telegraphs; auctions; patents; copyrights; trade marks and industrial designs; affidavits and declarations; subjects and aliens; wills, and joint stock companies. Stenography. The principles of Stenography; writing from dictation at a speed of sixty words per minute, and accurate transcription into longhand at a speed of twelve words per minute; the dictated matter to comprise business correspondence or legal documents. Drawing.Object and Model Drawing; Perspective and Geometrical Drawing. The examination in Drawing will be on the papers used at the Art School examinations in Primary and advanced Geometry and Perspective and in Model, Memory and Blackboard Drawing. For the rest of the course the examinations will be held in July, and application with the fee of $5 should be sent to the Public School Inspector not later than the 24th of May. Books of reference recommended by the examiners: The Canadian Accountant. By Beatty and Johnson. Money and the Mechanism of Exchange. By W. S. Jevons. Banking Act of 1890. The Carswell Co., Adelaide St., The Laws of Business. By C. A. Fleming. Expert Book-keeping. By C. A. Fleming. Complete Phonographic Instructor. By Sir I. Pitman. II. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LEAVING EXAMINATIONS. The Regulations in regard to this were amended in 1899 and now read as follows: The Public School Leaving Examination is identical with the examination prescribed for Part I. of Junior Leaving Standing Public School Leaving Certificates are issued by the Public School Inspector to all pupils of Public Schools in his inspectorate who pass the examination of Part I. of Junior Leaving Standing. The holders of Public School Leaving Certificates dated before 1899 will be entitled to certificates of having passed the examination of Part I. Junior Leaving Standing by passing the examinations in Arithmetic and Mensuration, Grammar and History, the prescribed percentage on the total of these subjects being also exacted. Part I., Junior Leaving Standing. The subjects prescribed for Part I. of Junior Leaving Standing are the following: Reading, Drawing, Geography, Botany (or Agriculture), Writing with Book-keeping and Commercial Transactions, English Grammar, English Literature, Arithmetic and Mensuration, English Composition and History. The course in Agriculture |