ANNUAL REPORT ON THE COMMON, ACADEMIC, AND NORMAL AND MODEL SCHOOLS OF NOVA SCOTIA, 1878. TO HIS HONOR THE HONORABLE ADAMS GEORGE ARCHIBALD, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Nova Scotia: MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOR,-In presenting my second Annual Report, I would direct attention to the gratifying evidence furnished by its various tables, summaries, comparisons, and supplementary reports, of the intelligent and vigorous support given by the people, as a whole, to the cause of popular education. The time required in obtaining a mastery of the routine of my official duties, and in the discharge of imperative engagements, has not left me free to visit, to the extent of my wishes, the more important educational points in the various counties. I have sought, however, by all available means, to obtain such a knowledge of the practical working of our system, as would give to any suggestions made for its modification, some reasonable claim on public attention. The Statistical Abstract, presenting a summary view of the state of education in the Province, will be followed by brief observations on matters deemed of importance. I shall not consider it necessary to re-state, in the text of my remarks, facts sufficiently obvious from the Abstract or Tables, unless they are to be used as the basis of special suggestion or recommendation. |