THE EDUCATION QUESTION.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2384, 5 November 1880, Page 3

THE EDUCATION QUESTION.

The Dunedin “Tablet,” in an article on the Education question, eulogises the Canadian system. It says “In Lower Canada the great majority of the inhabitants are Catholic; in Upper Canada the majority are non-Catholics. In neither has any attempt been made by Parliament to coerce the minority. In both Upper and Lower Canada the minority has its own schools sup’ ported by public fuhds on precisely the same conditions. In both, the tax-gatherer after collecting the school rates hands over to Protestants and to Catholics, for the support of their respective schools, the rates contributed by each denomination. Thus the money contributed in rates by the Protestants in Lower Canada, where Catholics are in an overwhelming majority, are handed over to the Protestant minority for the support of their own denominational schools. And similarly in Upper Canada the rates paid by the Catholic minority are handed over to this minority for the support of their own schools. This is a just arrangement, most equitable, and it is found to give satisfaction, and promote peace and contentment.