Documentary history of education in Upper Canada Volume 17 ; from the passing of the constitutional act of 1791, to the close of Rev. Dr. Ryerson's administration of the Education dept. in 1876 ... - Softcover

Education, Ontario. Dept. Of

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ISBN 10: 1130225224 ISBN 13: 9781130225228

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...to benefit our System of Education; or, if detrimental, to endeavour to get them corrected, or rescinded. I was of opinion also that the Committee should enquire as far as practicable, into the workings of the other Collegiate Institutions in the Province, because the information thus obtained might enable us to perfect our own Rules and Regulations, not only in regard to discipline, but also as respects our literary and ordinary arrangements. "But I never contemplated any changes in the fundamental principles of our Charter, nor do I believe that it requires any. "What we really need is pecuniary assistance, and nothing more. Our deficiency in this respect proceeds from two causes; first, from contingent losses of property, over which we had no control; secondly, from not exerting ourselves, as perhaps we might have done in disposing of our wild Lands. "But it is not yet too late, if our strength be energetically put forth, to bring in a comfortable measure of relief. Our case, therefore, is by no means helpless, nor involved in greater difficulties, than have been overcome by a strict frugality and judicious expenditure. "There is indeed already more than a transient hope of at least a partial diminution of this difficulty, by an application to Government. To this we have been indirectly invited, as appears from the public speeches of the Honourable John A. Macdonald, Attorney General of Canada West. And from his encouraging Reply to my application on the subject, in which he says that, if granted, 'I am sure that it will not be clogged by any conditions that would render it difficult, or impossible, to accept.' "So much in explanation of the Resolution. But what do we find, in referring to the Report? Instead of a simple inquiry,...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1130225224
• ISBN 13: 9781130225228
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 202