Report upon State education in Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Belgium & the United States of America; including a special report upon deaf-mute institutions. by R. Laishley

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. 1886 Excerpt: ..."Morals and Maimers " be obligatory in all standards.4 (2.) That, in the case of any conscientious objection to the course which may be Denominational adopted in a locality by the school-governing body, aid be granted to denominational schools6 aidto such extent and subject to such a conscience clause, State inspection, examination, control, audit, &c., as may be just.6 II.--GRATUITOUS EDUCATION.7 (1.) That elementary education be not gratuitous after the Fourth Standard. (2.) Whether it should be so even to that extent?8 (3.) Where fees are payable, (a) what conditions and privileges, if any, should attach to certificates of proficiency; and (b) generally what exemptions, if any, from fees should exist? Gratuitous education. left out, we must begin by replacing the staircaso before we can go up higher."--Rov. E. Thring, M.A., "Journal of Education," Juno, 1886. See also "Criticisms on State Education in Victoria," by Fairfield (Ballarat: J. Curtis, Nov., 1886). 11 Many years of controversy should at least have taught us this, that with bare secularism the public conscience is not, and cannot be, content. It requires little political foresight to see that a system of public education, with which the religious bodies are unanimously discontented, can count only on a troubled and precarious future."--A. It. Fitchett, M.A. Judging from the most recent statistics issued, it would appear that crime in Victoria has been on the increase since 1880.--Bishop Thornton. 1 English Act, 1870, s. 7. Sentences over the study-door of the late Prof. Story, at Jena--In dubiis, libertas; In necessariis, unitas; In omnibus, caritas. For origin and history of the conscience clause in Great Britain, see Mr. Cumin's evidence before Roya...