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Education, as those in the Regulations of 1876 making 

 provisions for the training and education of teachers ; 

 at other times those are left which would be advan- 

 tageous, such as giving teachers a higher aim than 

 pecuniary benefits for which to work, although the bag 

 is repeatedly appealed to. 



In 1876, before the " Commission of Enquiry," it was 

 shown that the system of counting a "pass" to mean 

 " passing in the three R's" was unfair and unjust ; yet 

 in 1882 the identical method of calculating the grant 

 was re-ena6led. It was distin6lly asserted before the 

 above-mentioned Commission, by managers, by teachers, 

 by members of the legal profession, by scholars, by 

 intelligent and successful tradesmen, by some of the 

 most experienced and disinterested in the Colony, that 

 it was absolutely necessary that Teachers should be 

 trained for their responsible vocation, and that evils 

 which then existed were to a large extent due to the 

 prevailing custom of choosing for the responsible posi- 

 tion of Teachers the young and inexperienced, men not 

 qualified either in mental attainments, moral habit, or 

 social status, yet in 1882 the Training College for 

 Schoolmasters was closed, the students turned adrift, 

 and the managers of schools driven to the necessity of 

 drafting their teachers from such professional gentlemen 

 as tailors, shoemakers, butlers, grooms and boat-hands. 

 In 1853, the Court of Policy granted exhibitions to the 

 principal denominations of the colony for the training of 

 young men as schoolmasters, but after nearly a quarter 

 of a century's trial it was found so prejudicial to 

 the best interests of the colony, that in 1876 provi- 

 sions were made for the establishing of one unde- 



