During the past fow daya I have had from a number of reapectperienced village school toxchiors, who have been thrown out of employ: ment by the vagaries of the officials in the management of the new school sys Of course, it is the old absurd that every foreigner is an agent of ployment bureau, and more pecially as the school a upposed to be after foreign patterns, should the foreigner be expected to furnish woe sort of means However ab very real thing In every case the man had boon the toncher of a village school, When the system was started a largo number of them were employed, but the magistrate who started them was transferred, and his successor di continued more than half of those formerly established. Of course, one of the rst things that ought to be dono is to take the matier out-of the hands of the: tory and irresponsible ion abionld b ising thes village schoolmasters.
On being asked why they did not return to the private village schools the uniform reply was that there ware none to rotun to. The examinations have been discontinued, ani there it contrive to the peop! morly sup: ported these schools to keep them up, The consequence is that the boys who wore formerly kept under discipline in these schools are running teachers are idling about in disconsolate and discontented wa:
To be sure they are altogether unfitted for carrying out "course of oducation on the proposed line, but they are the very best material for the creation of a good teaching staff. They are for their instruction elementary branches would meet with an oamest and hearty response, I have asked them if they would be willing to apply themselves to the acquisition of the things necessary to fit them for the work required, ani they have soamed most anxious to do so. It would be 8 thousand pities to sot aside the:
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