Annual Report of the Normal, Model, and Common Schools in Upper Canada for the Year ...: With an AppendixLovell and Gibson, 1853 - Education |
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adopted annual school appointed apportionment assessment average attendance Belleville Board of School Brantford Brockville Bytown certificates Chief Superintendent clause Cobourg Council of Public county clerk county council duties establishment Female free school system furnished Goderich grammar improvement increase INSTRUCTION FOR UPPER interest Journal of Education Lanark legislative school grant legislature local superintendent Lower Canada Male meeting Model Schools municipal council Normal School number of children number of schools object Oshawa parents parties persons Perth Peterborough Port Hope present principle procuring Province Public Instruction public school libraries qualified rate-bill regard regulations religious instruction religious persuasion REPORT for 1852 respect Reverend RYERSON salaries school fund school houses school law school moneys school section School Trustees schools in Upper selection separate schools Simcoe Stormont Superintendent of Schools teachers teaching Toronto total number TOWN MUNICIPALITIES township township council Upper Canada village youth
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Page 18 - What the state ought to take upon itself to direct by the public wisdom, and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual discretion.
Page 246 - ... 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 262 - Every parson, vicar, or curate, upon every Sunday and holyday, before evening prayer, shall, for half an hour or more, examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of his parish in the Ten Commandments, the Articles of the Belief, and in the Lord's Prayer; and shall diligently hear, instruct, and teach them the Catechism set forth in the Book of Common Prayer.
Page 246 - 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 246 - And knowing that our government rests directly on the public will, that we may preserve it, we endeavor to give a safe and proper direction to that public will. We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our...
Page 161 - 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...
Page 262 - ... be ordered by the minister until they have learned the same. And if any minister neglect his duty herein, let him be sharply reproved upon the first complaint, and true notice thereof given to the bishop or ordinary of the place. If after submitting himself, he shall willingly offend therein again, let him be suspended. If so the third time, there being little hope that he will be therein reformed, then excommunicated, and so remain until he be reformed.
Page 297 - ... 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 260 - Aci, no child shall be required to read or study in or from any religious book, or to join in any exercise of devotion or religion, which shall be. objected to by his or her parents or guardians : Provided always, that within this limitation, pupils shall be allowed to receive such religious instruction as their parents or guardians shall desire, according to the general regulations which shall be provided according to law.
Page 167 - The said arbitrators, or any two of them, may issue their warrant to any person named therein, to enforce the collection of any moneys by them awarded to be paid, and the person named in such warrant shall have the same power and authority to enforce the collection of the moneys mentioned in the said warrant, with all reasonable costs, by seizure and sale of the property...