EDUCATION.

Evening Star, Issue 3979, 25 November 1875, Page 3

EDUCATION.

To the. Editor. > Plß,—ln dealing with the subject of education you point out. °n your leader in yesterday evening's Star, that “the money at. the dis. p- sal of the Provincial Government has provef utterly inadequate to the demands coming froir all parts of the country for new schools, or foi the enlarr-raent of existing buildings. ’ I venture to think that had the Proviucia < overnment of I >tago done more for th( people, by leaving superior education altogethei alone there would not be so much to com plain about. The buddings set apart fo; the High School would give room for severa hundred children, and would make most desir able premises for Middle District Schools. I things were as they should be the Governmeu would allow the peo.de the High School fo th-. education of their children. The well-to do of < dago can afford to educate their childrei free of all Government aid, and .allow other not so wealthy to receive the bounty. In fact there are those who, on principle, send thei children to schools out of the Province rathe than leave it to be said that they accept Go vernment support to do that which they hav the means to do themselves, that is to pay i full for value received. Government monopol of education shuts out all first class privat schools, and narrows the eelne a.mnsd advar tages to one, and one only, set form, tnethoc or system. The education of the wealthy mus necessarily .suffer th ough leaving no idt-rn: tive —no choice of schools ; for however exce lent one system may be. still, owing to thegre,variety of mind and dispositions, anotht system may prove more successful in cist where the one would fad. 1 here is no sue thing is perfection under the sun. Ido beh’ev that the sweeping away of superior educatioi and Ihe concentration of the whole of the ed\ c.ition grant in the direction of District Schoo is but a question of time, which force of ci cu - stances will inevitably bring about, wh thei it he under Provincial or General Goven incut enactment. I -ead in the Evening Star of last Monda th.t the e.ectois of urton (Canterbiir; oistric' in public meeting assembled resolvt to sir port no candidate who will not pled< him-elf to vote : —“That the mere essentials education be liboaLy .-upported from the co solid.-ted revenue as a priinaiy necessity good, pur. government, Hi superior eiluc.ilii to lie paid for.” In th s there is the ring of tl true m- tab —1 am, Ac., SiiLF-BSLIANCE. Dunedin, November 23.