CHAPTER VIII. 



EDUCATION. 



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 Centre Jubilee Scholarship Council of Higher Edu- 

 cation. 



REVIOUS to the year 1823 no organized 

 attention was paid to education in the col- 

 ony. The people were poor, and it required 

 a hard struggle for daily bread. The settlements 

 were small, widely separated, and physical wants were 

 too pressing to permit scarcely any attempt at the 

 education of the rising generation, and, as a matter of 

 fact, they grew up without the first rudiments of 

 knowledge outside of their vocation of capturing cod 

 and seal. The beginning of common school educa- 

 tion dates from 1823, when "The Newfoundland 

 School Society" was founded in London by Samuel 

 Codner, a Newfoundland merchant. Afterwards its 

 name was changed to "The Colonial and Continental 

 Church Society." The schools it planted were main- 

 tained by the liberality of its members unaided until 

 1843, when the Legislature granted an annual sum of 

 $5,100 for the promotion of common school educa- 



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