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The want of travelling facilities in Sunbury is, no doubt. partly the reason why no Institute has been held in the county for the last five years; but the greater reason must, I think, be owing to the indifference of many of the teachers of this county. By referring to Table II, it will be seen that the percentage of attendance at the schools for the second term of 1888 was the lowest for the Province, and, for the following term, the next lowest. The County of Restigouche does not make a creditable showing in respect of Institutes, yet, in other respects, it maintains a good educational standing.

Partly with a view of showing the practical character of the work at these Institutes, and partly because the publication will be of service to many teachers, I have appended a few of the papers read. A very excellent paper on Reading, by Mr. Manning, was received from the St. John County Institute; but, as it appeared in the Educational Review, its publication is unnecessary. Other good papers were received, but only a very limited number can be pub

lished.

Arbor Day

Arbor Day was celebrated May 17th, in accordance with the following provisions of Reg. 19-2.

Arbor Day: With a view of encouraging the improvement and crnamentation of school grounds, and thereby of cultivating, on the part of pupils, habits of neatness and order, and a taste for the beautiful in nature, the Board of Education makes the following provision:

Teachers are hereby authorized, with the sanction of the Trustees, to set apart any Friday that may be deemed most suitable during the months of May or June for the purpose of improving the school grounds and planting thereon

equipped. The additional cost to the Province would not exceed $6,000, and for some years would not likely reach that amount. The rates of the taxpayer would not necessarily be increased. The details of the scheme will be found in the Report for 1887.

One or other of two things is inevitable, and inevitable by a natural law, if our secondary education is to remain as it is. The common school must deteriorate or the University must be lowered to a secondary school. The efficiency of a common school system cannot be maintained unless it is brought into sympathetic touch with something higher than itself. The Grammar Schools, as organized, do not meet this want. The gap between the common school and the University is too great to admit of a direct uplifting influence. It cannot stimulate the common school by drawing it up into touch with itself, but the common school, like the heavier mass, must by the sheer weight of its members, drag the University down. If the Province is not prepared to sacrifice the one, or the other, of these interests—and I am sure it is not, I see no way of preserving them than by supplying the gap that will unify, and bring into organic relation, all the parts of our educational system. I conclude this report, by repeating the two recommendations I have made in the course of it, to the Legislature:

1. That better provision be made for securing the attendance at school of all educable children.

2. That better provision be made on behalf of Secondary Education.

I have the honour to be,

Your Honor's most obedient servant,

WM. CROCKET,

Chief Superintendent of Education.

PART II.

STATISTICAL TABLES.

COUNTIES.

Schools.

Teachers and Assistants.

Pupils in attendance at Schools.

TABLE I. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE, 1889. PRELIMINARY.

SECOND TERM CLOSED 31ST DECEMBER, 1888.

FIRST TERM CLOSED 30TH JUNE, 1889.

YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE, 1889.

Schools.

Teachers and Assistants.

Pupils in attendance at Schools.

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New Pupils in attendauce this Term, at Schools in operation both Terms.

New Pupils in attendance this Term, at Schools not in operation the previous Term.

No. of Districts having Schools in operation in the Second Term, that were without Schools in the First Term.

No. of Districts having Schools in operation during the First Term, that were without Schools in the Second Term.

attendance at

Total No. of different Pupils in

Schools within the year.

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