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THE QVARANTINE LAWS, — Were I called to point out the worst existing example of sacrifices made to ignorance and superstition in this part of the globe, I should instance the quarantine…
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THE QVARANTINE LAWS, — Were I called to point out the worst existing example of sacrifices made to ignorance and superstition in this part of the globe, I should instance the quarantine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,-- I again feel encouraged, through your kind condescension, to send you some further thoughts upon education. The following interrogative was put to me the other day, viz.: "Whether the education in a Denominational or a National school is to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DISTRIBUTION of the sums voted by the Legislative Council for the support of the Denominational Schools for 1851:— CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—A great deal has been, said and written lately on the subject of Education, and men have come to think that after all it is more a party question than anything else, and not one about…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →We entered the room without any ceremony, and stood a while at the door gazing at its inmates. It was crowded with boys and girls, the boys at one end, the girls at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Annual Meeting of the members of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts was held on Tuesday evening, at the theatre of the Institution; Mr. A A'Beckett, Vice-President,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How many schoolmasters are, at the present day, wasting their talents "on the desert air." How many are forced, from untoward circumstances, to eke out a paltry subsistance without…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EDUCATIONAL discussions have of late been as frequent and as fierce as theological controversies. Three great questions have been mainly debated; first, shall the working classes be instructed at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SOME of our readers who move in the humbler walks of life may require to be informed that there is an institution established in Pitt-street, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →" National education insults the poor, by telling them that instruction must he forced upon them; it insults employers, as it shows they do hot give sufficient wages for tho poor to pay for their own…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →" At other schools, one-third of the children are generally absent, and if the fee be insisted upon, the inability of the parents to pay it is generally assigned as a principal reason of this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE are very desirous that this Institution Sydney's single scientific society, should he rescued from the miserably inefficient condition into which it has fallen,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It should he added that the field of labour was at first most unpromising. It is something to say that it is a rural parish in Hampshire; but more than this, Mr. Dawes found it thoroughly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR-We should be glad to be informed if the committee of the School of Arts is doing anything, or intending to do anything, or even commencing to think that it should intend to do anything, res-,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR — You will be glad to find that at least some of the Local Boards, to whom the Superintendence of Denominational Schools is confided, are beginning to give earnest of their usefulness in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Every man has his own special work set for him to do in the world, if he will but do it. No one can justify himself in sitting down with his hands folded and doing nothing,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GENTLEMEN-I feel that an apology for addressing you is hardly needed. Any one who, at what he conceives to be an impertant crisis, refrains from the expression…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the progress of the great agitation which is now spreading itself over the whole of England, one class of persons only seems to preserve its usual equanimity. It…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Lord Bishop of Sydney in the Chair. The School-room was crowded at an early hour, and among the gentlemen on the platform were his Honor Sir Alfred Stephen, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—Permit me, through the medium of your Journal, to inquire what the Committee are thinking about? Do they suppose that any humdrum is likely to please the taste of our now…
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