, 1872-06-08

sounding name OF a Governments grant
shall have been promulgated among the
parents of such children as will send them
to a parochial school, the chance of OBJ
tanning any thing at all will be greatly
lessened. And what will be the result?
Such a school will be Immediately filled
with gratis attendants; and its support
will depend solely upon the large grant
of $3.50 p. a. 1t does not require any
stress of idea to calculate the amount
which will be forthcoming to meet the
starving expectations of the teachers of
whom this laborious work will be. expec-
ted. They will be expected to do more
than what has been effected by either of
the School Commissions under the pre-
sent arrangement of school affairs viz. to
keep up a standard regular average atten-
dance. $3.50 p. a. will only give
$50. $50 cts. per month, and, at least, a
male and female teacher will have to be
supported out of this large amount, and
the president Minister" will soon find, that
he would have to add gratis school materi-
ais to gratis school, instructions, in most
cases, if not in all, of his gratis attendants.
1t should not, therefore, be obligatory on
such a school to give gratis instruction to
any, as a condition for receiving the grant;
but this being given, the Minister should
have the full power Of applying it as he
pleases, and each scholar should be bound
to pay a certain school-fee the exceptions
to which to be left entirely with the Min
lister or the congregation of each parish
should be called upon to meet the subsidy
with an annual amount, equivalent to
the proper support OF the parochial
schools.
The fifth Condition seems to be fully
adapted to the plain purpose for which it
is intended, if the plan of substituting pa
rochial schools were adopted here, conse-
q%uently, requires no further comment.
1.-The proposed plan" says Mr.. Sarauw,
ais taken partly from the rules followed in
some of the English Westindia Islands"
1t is unfortunate for the proposition, from
an argumentative point of view, that it
is particular and not universal in its Illogical
quantity. 1t does not follow, that, because
parochiaI schools are subsidized in ''some
of the English Westindia Islands," the
same plan will succeed or ought to be
adopted here. In some of the said Islands,
the Government had been remarkably re-
miss for d long time in the performing of
this important State-duty-the Educating
Of the People-and it was left exclusively
to the efforts of private and Missionary en-
terprise to carry on the work of Education.
In the island of Antigua, for instance, this
was principally the case, and it is only of late
that the Government has attempted to
atone for its remissness in not attending to
a duty which was really and truly binding
upon it, by granting small amounts in the
way of subsidy to such schools as had been
established by Missionary efforts. But
this fact is we'll known, that the subsidiz-,
ing system is not confined to the towns
alone, but to such schools in general
throughout the Island.
The grant given to the respective schools
is a mere pittance indeed in most cases, yet
the work of Education is more extensively
carried on there than it is here, and it is an
evident fact, that it's beneficial results
have attained a higher standard there, than
among the correspondence classes here. The
Missionary spirit is very widely diffused
throughout the Island, and many are en-
gagged in the work of teaching more out of
love for the work itself, than for the ~"loaves
and fishes"