Excerpt from Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada, Vol. 26: From the Passing of the Constitutional Act of 1791 to the Close of the Reverend Doctor Ryerson's Administration of the Education Department in 1876
This Volume contains a more than ordinary amount of interesting records of educational work done and progress made in Ontario during the year to which it refers.
The several Statutes relating not only to the Public and Separate Schools, but also to the High Schools and Collegiate Institutes, underwent a careful revision. An addition of several new Sections was incorporated in appropriate places in the revised Text, and the whole, when thus prepared, was consolidated, - the one part into a Statute, relating to the Public and Separate Schools, and the other part into a Law dealing with the Council of Public Instruction, the High Schools, and the Collegiate Institutes.
The object of this revision, amendment and consolidation of these several Educational Acts was not only to improve the condition of these Schools, and the Collegiate Institutes, but especially to improve the status, and render more efficient our system of Normal School training. A new Normal School, which had been erected at Ottawa, was put into successful operation, and in the formal opening of which, the Lieutenant-Governor, the Attorney-General, the Chief Superintendent of Education, and the new Minister who was to succeed Doctor Ryerson, took part.
A prolonged and interesting Correspondence between the Attorney-General and the Chief Superintendent of Education, took place in 1874, on the subject of the revised and improved School Laws. As, in this Correspondence, the various improvements and amendments, which had been suggested, were fully stated and discussed, I have thought it desirable to insert in a separate chapter, (Number III).
A formal attack on our Educational Depository, (in an elaborate Letter to the Attorney-General), was made by a Toronto Bookseller, - and which he afterwards embodied in a printed Pamphlet, - was replied to by the Chief Superintendent, and, in a Letter to the Attorney-General, he took a comprehensive view of the whole matter, showing that the prompt and efficient supply of Maps, Apparatus, Books and School material, for use in the Schools was just as important and necessary as was the supply of trained and efficient Teachers. He also quoted the strong commendation of our Depository system by distinguished Educationists in the United States, as well as the equally strong and unanimous endorsement of it by a Select Committee of the House of Assembly, and also, as the result of the practical experience of our own Public School Inspectors.
In order to deal effectively with the troublesome question of Vagrant and Truant Children, as one mode of giving effect to the principle of compulsory education, where Free Schools existed, a Draft of Bill was prepared by the Chief Superintendent to establish Industrial Schools in the Cities and larger Towns of Ontario, to which that class of children could be sent by a Magistrate, on the complaint of a School Trustee, or a Ratepayer.
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