19th May, 1898. 
The following paper was read : — 
ON EDUCATION IN TRINIDAD. 
By R. J. Lechmere Guppy, Late Chief Inspector of Schools, 
j General Considerations. 
r have been asked to read a paper on Education at the -Vic- 
. ■ T nq titute It is with reluctance and nnsgmng that 
1 toria ^statute. J. when asked tQ read such a paper, 
iccept the task, for,^ ^ ^ subject are so different from those 
my views P rful classes i n this community, that I fear 
S ittle cood will arise out of anything I may put forward, 
dmt little „ been as8Ure d otherwise, for I had on a former 
However, j would not mind sacrificing my ease and 
occasion sa ar ise therefrom ; but I do not feel encouraged 
:onvemence if goo 2a ined. And . then again, I must ask 
to do so if no goo i J’ f m „ health which has of late 
your indulgence on th ® mp f ro f n literary work of any sort, 
almost entirely lncapaci < : nrurre d the obligation, I must do 
However I feel that having l os t only at the last moment 
what I can to fulfil it. A ^ o e ndeaVour io do so. These pre- 
that I have put pen to paper roco i ve a most imperfect and 
liminaries will I hope dispose y j indulgence you might not 
hastily gotten-up papei Wl 1 
otherwise find it easy to accor . pncvclo- 
Eor the history, of education I l\\ communities 
pedias and standard works on d forra and means of 
even the most rude there ^society such form or means 
education and in the grow adapted for the bringing up 
must have assumed de fi mte ® h ^t h the conditions under which 
of the individual in conformity that in all fully orga 
his life had to be passed. C ^, fc tiona i institutions to have 
nized communities we fin up your time with any ur 
existed. I cannot however take up y ^ discussl0 n of those 
reference to these but proceed at « nce ards the education 
points which immediately conc er ^ ‘ part ° The fundamental 
of the community of ^ichweform U ^ must be 
and immutable principles o ar ticle on the su je t 
based are so well indicated in * bdsbed g0 me sixty or seven y 
Standard Library Cyclope m tbatt quote it here, 
years ago that I cannot do better 4 
