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tions with a view of improving their own education and at the 
same time being paid for doing duty as Assistants and Pupi 
Teachers, but who have no real intention of permanently 
devoting themselves to the work of teaching or of undertaking 
the charge of country schools it is no doubt a hardship not to be 
allowed to go up for examination and not to have certificates 
issued to them without probation, but the interests of the 
Department must be considered before the convenience of such 
persons and it must ever be borne in mind that Teachers Certi- 
ficates are intended for teachers only and not to serve as a kind 
of academical degree. 
Some have imagined that the Teacher can gain a sufficient 
knowledge of the art of teaching by the study of a Manual o t 
School Management. But this no more supplies what is required 
than a study of Works on Anatomy can take the place of actual 
practice in Surgery. This is amply proved by experience ; and 
of the two conditions of study and examination on the one hand 
and of training and actual service on the other the latter is it 
anything more indispensable than the former. In any case it is 
a serious error tb take the mere ability to pass an examination 
as the sole test of the fitness of a person for the office of Teacher. 
No person ought to be allowed to have charge of a public school 
unless trained and certificated after probation to the satisfaction 
of the Educational Authorities. 
VII.- 
- Concluding Remarks. 
1 om- the^ast'two^publilhed 1 Reporte* of our 
Eduction Department. The last /^^"diL” on in 
report was 1889. The total cost “ , scholal . in 
that year was .£23,500 or at t e ra^ ^ £30,994 or at the 
average attendance. In 1S95 , j n 1890 the cost 
rate of 44/- per scholar in average attendance average 
was £32,757 or at the rat* >0^45/- was 13f890 . It 
attendance in 1889 was lt-,-1 ■ . e 0 f 1 675. In 1896 
therefore cost £7,494 to obtain -y ]ie j acre ase of 2,289 
the average attendance was > \ that previously to 
thus cost £9,257. This \ vom 5 P >541 in 1881 
1890 a steady increase of at tend s /eady decrease in the 
to 12,215 in 1889) was accompanied by ^steaoy ^ ^ si[ice 
cost per scholar (namely trom / , jo 215 in that year to 
1889 the increase of attendance^ by an increased cost per 
14,500 in 1896) has been accompan 
scholar — this being now 45/-. 
