, 1892-09-17

NAAOhSA AK AAAE OOAOO4s WIN Is kUOMn
in England as a Correspondence Glass is con-
Quoted by the Principal and his STAFF. One
who has been aided in this way, an Elemen-
tary School Teacher, passed the London
Naturalization Examination in January last,
and others are receiving similar assistance.
We observe from the Jamaica Gazette that the
Commissions have during the current year
taken another step owards stimulating high
er education. They have offered a Scholar
ship tenable at University College for one
year. to be competed for by elementary school
teachers at Christmas. From info1 nation
that has reached us we know that this Offer
has created much interest among the pro
gressive teachers and will lead to keen com
Petition for the much desired advan-
tage.
But the Commission has more work to do Of
a similar kind for the higher education. and
we are glad to see that it will probably soon
transform Tltchfeld elementary school into
one of the higher grade without undoing the
servloethey have rendered to primary education
In the district. A great step in advance will
have been made when the three Titohtield
boys now at the High School can DO educated
RtFoTtA Antonio. The temporary centryllza-
ton that was necessary will then cease, and
the interests of the higher education be more
adequately cared for in the island at large.
A similar movement will have to take place
in CONNECTION with the We're and Manchester
Free Schools. On the basis Of the local en-
dowments must be erected schools of a
higher grade that have hitherto been sup
ported out of the trust funds. The removal
of the six boys sent from Titchfeld and We're
will be no loss to the High School, and it
it be one of the conditions OF extending high
er education, it will be a general gain. But
these truStfunds must be aided and encour-
aged out OF General Revenue TO the limited
extent originally proposed by the Schools
Commission III their Secondary Education
Bill. For the sake also Of the future
Wolmtr's Ibis change in the S oondary Ed
ucation Law is imperatively and equitably
demanded. In this way the cPntralising
policy which was necessary for q short timo
IN connection With the work Of the Commits
sion Will lead to seful dccentrilization and
stimulating spread of the means Of Education
which will with other measures help speedily
to wipe out the charge that We are an unedu-
Gated people. We understand that the Board
of Education have made a beginning in the
same direction, having taken the first step
towards the founding Of a Secondary School
a. MOntrGo Bay. They can count on the
concurrence If His ExccIlency the Governor
in this matter, as he frnnkly stated when
approached on the subject in August. 1890,
that the subject of intermediate Education
was being carefully considered and that in
the event of intermediate Schools being es-
tablished, MOntego Bay would certainly be
one of the places chosen for the location Of
such schools.
The Schools Commissions have still more
to do than we have adverted to. A great
defici, ncy exists at the High School inasmuch
as Drawing is not there taught. 1t is we'll
known that this is now a compulsory subject
in the Elementary Schools of England. It's
bearing on the education of the eye and the
hand, on the development of the prrcept,ve
powers Of children and in fact ON all their
mental activities give it naturally a place in
education which it ought much sooner to
have had. The 'Atheneum in a recent issue
referring to this and other colonies and to one
aspect of the manifold applications of Draw
ing called it 1.-The key of Art" What it sail
was Among the more promising efforts
now being made to introduce a taste ssfor and
knowledge Of art into some Of the Colonies,
none is more oommendable thai that Of Mr.
Frank Cundall, reported in the journal
of the Institute OF Jamaica for May last. Mr..
Cundall, who 10 editor of the journal" has
published in it a sympathetic and highly
intelligent address, which combines practical
and quite practicable advice with abundance
of spirit 'and thought. It is quite time the
larger Colonies extended their operations