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The university, the gymnasium, the Normal schools, the primary schools, once 

 started into existeuce, must move on together. Each is necessary to the whole, 

 and the prosperity of each contributes to the prosperity of the whole. Nothing 

 but sheer sciolism or utter ignorance can conceive of any opposition between 

 them ; and none but au empiric in education, or a traitor to its cause, can aim to 

 aid one by the sacrifice of any of the others. " 



This organization of the entire scheme of education for the Pro- 

 vince, from its lowest primary or infant school, to its finishing Col- 

 leges and University, into one coherent and mutually dependent sys- 

 tem, is not only what we want, but what seems indispensable for 

 Canada. Nor are we without our own ideas as to how it might and 

 should be accomplished ; but we dread the intrusion of polemics into 

 the pages of the Canadian Journal, the organ of an Institute which, 

 we trust, will ever offer an arena wherein educated men of every 

 opinion and party can meet on common ground. But this accom- 

 plished, by whatever means ; and that other scarcely less impor- 

 tant requisite: a uniform standard of University degrees, having 

 been secured throughout the Province ; the nest step must be to 

 render it an indispensable qualification for the mastership of every 

 Grammar School, that its holder has taken his B.A. degree. By 

 and by, — and the sooner the better, — this demand must be extended 

 to the Common School Teachers also ; and this done, and their 

 salaries proportionably raised, so as to render the appointments 

 worth a man of education looking forward to as objects of profes- 

 sional ambition, then we shall be ready to borrow a most important 

 principle from Prussia, viz : — to make the appointments to the mas- 

 tership of the Provincial Grammar and Common Schools the prizes 

 of the most successful candidates for University honors. This is the 

 new principle recently introduced with the very best results into 

 various departments of public life, — not in the United States, but at 

 home — and especially into the civil appointments of the East India 

 Company's service ; thereby substituting for the unwholesome and mis- 

 chievous influences of political patronage and personal favor, the 

 impartial test of intellectual attainments. Thus the Common Schools 

 would be made to depend on the G-rammar Schools, the Grrammar 

 Schools on the Colleges, and the Colleges on the University. We have 

 said nothing about the Normal School, but it is not because we under- 

 value the influence of that admirable Institution. The function of the 

 Normal School is to teach men to teach ; and such a coherent system 

 must doubtless raise its standard also ; but we should just as certainly 

 demand of the B. A., candidate for a Common School teachership the 

 production of his first class certificate from the Council of Public 



