CHAPTEE XIV, 



THE "EDUCATION QUESTION" IN TEINIDAD. 



When I arrived in Trinidad, the little island was somewhat 

 excited about changes in the system of education, which 

 ended in a compromise like that at home, thougli starting 

 from almost the opposite point. 



Among the many good deeds which Lord Harris did for 

 the colony was the establishment throughout it of secular 

 elementary ward schools, helped by Government grants, 

 on a system which had, I think, but two defects. First, 

 that attendance was not compulsory ; and next, that it was 

 too advanced for the state of society in the island. 



In an ideal system, secular and religious education ought, 

 I believe, to be strictly separate, and given, as far as possible, 

 by different classes of men. The first is the business of 

 scientific men and their pupils ; the second, of the clergy and 

 their pupils : and the less either invades the domain of the 

 other, the better for the community. But, like all ideals, it 



