Excerpt from Historical and Other Papers and Documents, Vol. 6: Illustrative of the Educational System of Ontario, 1862-1871, Forming an Appendix to the Annual Report of the Minister of Education
May It Please Your Excellency:
As required by law, I present my Report on the condition of the Normal, Model, Grammar and Common Schools of Upper Canada for the year 1862.
All the statistical tables have been prepared with the care and variety of detail which have characterized the statistical tables of my annual reports for previous years; but with a view to economy in printing, and as has been recommended by the Printing Committee of the Legislative Assembly, I have omitted from this Report several of these tables and greatly abridged others.
In the Governmental Annual School Reports for Great Britain and Ireland, the statistical tables are numerous and very minute in their details; and the British Parliament and public demand the fullest information possible In regard to everything connected with the working of school systems to which they so largely contribute. In the State of Massachusetts also, where the school system has been long established, the statistical tables occupy a larger space than they have in my annual reports, while nearly twice as many, and more than twice as voluminous reports have been annually printed and circulated by statute than in the school reports for Upper Canada, though the number of schools and the number of pupils is greater in Upper Canada than in Massachusetts.
It is there, as well as in Great Britain, considered the best economy to prepare and circulate widely the most complete and detailed annual reports respecting the character and operations of their public school systems. I observe also that the last annual report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in the State of New York is more voluminous and much more comprehensive and minute in its statistics than in former years.
It is under the influence of the same views that I have for years collected, and presented in my annual reports, the most varied and detailed statistics respecting the character and working of every part of our public school system believing that such facts are the best answers to objections to it, and the knowledge of them one of the best means of strengthening and extending its operations.
It has been objected that comparatively few read the statistical tables when prepared and published.
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