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without exception, every facility in the examination 

 of the schools, and much courtesy — many of them 

 expressing their conviction that the periodical visits 

 of the inspector would have a beneficial tendency; 

 not only in exciting an increased diligence in their 

 pupils, but would also be the means of correcting 

 any errors in their system of tuition of which they 

 might be unconscious. 



I found the registers, with few exceptions, pro- 

 perly kept. Two or three of them, however, did 

 not distinguish whether the pupils attended both 

 parts of the day or not; proving that the roll, in 

 these cases, had not been called twice a day; 

 although' so important to be done, in order to pre- 

 serve proper order and discipline. This error has 

 since been rectified. 



In many of the schools, errors existed in the 

 method of tuition : the principal one, most prevalent, 

 appeared to be an over-anxiety on the part of the 

 teachers to get their pupUs through a certain book, 

 without due regard to frequent repetitions and cate- 

 chetical exercises, to cause them to retain and 

 understand what they had previously committed to 

 memory. The consequence was, that a class which 

 had gone through the greatest part of the geography 

 or grammar, when examined by questions on the first 



