Excerpt from Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada, Vol. 6: 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 Sixth Volume of the "Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada" is largely devoted to a Record of Proceedings, which detail what steps were taken in 1846 in laying "educational foundations."
As this Volume deals chiefly with the subject of "first things," in connection with our System of Public Education, and of "laying foundations," as connected with that System and University Education, I think it desirable to specify, in a somewhat general form, what is implied by these expressions in this connection.
The "first things," which this Volume records, as having been accomplished in 1846, are : -
1. The publication of an extended Report on a Projected System of Popular Education for Upper Canada.
2. The preparation and passing of a Common School Bill, founded upon that Report, and the first School Bill prepared under the auspices of Doctor Ryerson.
3. The appointment of a Board of Education for Upper Canada.
4. The selection of a Series of School Text Books, which remained in use in the Common Schools for twenty-two years, and until 1868.
5. The organization of the Education Department under the School Act of 1846.
6. The Establishment of a Provincial Normal School - (formally opened in 1847).
7. The substitution of District School Superintendents for local Township Superintendents.
8. General Forms and Regulations for the Goverment of Common Schools, including provision for giving Religious Instruction in these Schools, under the School Act of 1846.
The only really and effective efforts put forth in 1846 were those of the newly appointed Chief Superintendent of Education, in regard to the Common Schools of the Province. The strenuous efforts made, during that year, to settle the University Question were practically abortive. They proved, nevertheless, in the end, to be highly useful in clearing the way to a final settlement, at least for the time, a few years later, of that vexed question; but just then they were only tentative in their effects.
On his return from an examination, during 1844, 1845, of the Systems of Education and various kinds of Schools in Europe, and in the eastern part of the United States, Doctor Ryerson prepared an elaborate "Report on a System of Public Elementary Instruction for Upper Canada," in 1846.
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