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denominations in procuring suitable teachers for their 

 schools. 



The charity schools in Bermuda cannot possibly 

 keep pace with similar schools in Great Britain, 

 Ireland, and America, or with our military schools 

 at St. George's, and our convict schools at Boaz 

 Island, unless the teachers are trained to their 

 work. 



The art of teaching, or imparting knowledge, 

 according to the method and discipline of the im- 

 proved system, is in itself a science, and, hke all 

 other sciences, must be learnt and acquired.. 



To improve the present defective system, which, 

 with few exceptions, exists in the schools receiving 

 aid from the Treasury, and to provide eflScient 

 teachers to fill any vacancies which may occur in 

 them and in other similar schools at any future 

 time, I would, with the greatest deference, recom- 

 mend that a trained master, with a first-class certifi- 

 cate, should be introduced into the colony. 



Such an one would doubtless be induced to 

 come out if an annual salary of 80Z. or 90Z. were 

 guaranteed to him for a period of two years. This 

 trained master might keep one of the central schools, 

 which would become "the model." A few young 

 men would, doubtless, gladly avail themselves of 



