GUPPY — EDUCATION. 
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“ How then ought the State to exercise superintendence 
over the education of the citizen ? It is “Aue consideration 
attempt to answer this question which invo \ - su ffi- 
of some of the most difficult questions m ^^^'.fcTviS- 
cient if we present the question which 1 e n » „ ma y 
tion of the present and future ages 
answer the question so far as tins : the ^ superinten- 
tendence of the citizen’s education must hav *the ' 
dence of those who direct that education in . . . The body- 
direct those who are to carry its purposes into effect^ The b £ 
of teachers therefore must be tal truth 
under the control of the State Unless \ his ““ direct the 
be admitted and acted on the State cannot effectua y 
education of its citizens. 
‘•We may further recognize the principle that individual 
■ n ; n education must nOt be destroyed. It is possible to 
competi principles of state control and individual com- 
reconci e ^ ma y allow no person to teach without being 
petition. T j . c p register will show if he has been 
examined and \ U pn dence of state or not. This fact 
trained uncei riC s P bg le f t to individuals or associations of 
being established it J ' . hers they please. In all schools 
individuals to employ wl ‘ it follows as a matter of 
founded or supported by .’trained by the State should be 
course that none but teachers ‘"?y 
appointed . — Standard Library Cyclopedia. 
. „„ npr * read before a meeting of 
So long ago as 1867 m a pap ^ Exce]lenC y Sir Arthur 
the Scientific Association at wi ^ defective state of 
Gordon was present I rem k the means of pro- 
education in this island an n e d the “ tribal Conscience!, 
perly developing what lias been called ^ taken p]ace since 
Immense .changes and impro t day thoug h excellent in 
then. The education system ot ^ by the influence of 
principle had been rendered utte^ preV ent its existence 
the dominant classes. a , use fulness. It was e 
they almost entirely destroyed ^ schoo ls to such a co " dlUo “ 
fluence I speak of that reduced the ^ ^ that of 
that it was possible t0 .2JV , n then anyone w 10 c o ■ 
Sir Patrick Keenan. Though even ^ ^ faoW much better 
read between the lines ;of that ^ were than their 
(bad as they were) the -uo _ 
— Trinidad 1867 Pa S e 92 ' 
' * Proceedings Scientific Assocm 1 han this . Those unac- 
U able to find a better term ‘^particularly the one 
f I have not been able t Lec tures. S P 
juainted with it can con ..Morals.” 
in the “ Scientific Basis of Morals 
