The Schoolmaster
SIR.—It is night: our day's work is over and we [?] to think upon our labour and our time. We feel we trying to do as much as we can in our school— we that we have some enthusiasm in National Educa[?]…
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The Schoolmaster. Ii
IT may not be impertinent to ask what is our position society? Is not the intelligent teacher as useful [?] as respectable us the clergyman, the surgeon, or [?] lawyer? Look at yonder limb of the law—watch…
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YESTERDAY evening a lecture was delivered in the Hall of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, by the Hon. J. L. Montefiore, Esq., M.L.C., on the subject of Political Economy, being a popular and comprehensive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Grammar School. to the Editor of the Empire
SIR—Now that there is a lu[?], if not a calm, in the political world, porhaps you will have the goodness to allow attention to be called to one of those " practical questions and objects of usefulness," inferentially…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →School of Arts for St. Leonard's to the Editor of the Empire
SIR—As a well-wisher to the social, moral, and intellectual advancement of St. La[?]nards, I desire, through,the medium of the Empire, to call the attention of the inhabitant[?] to the great necessity which exists for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Sydney Grammar School. to the Editor of the Empire
SIR—If you will kindly allow me a little space in your valuable journal for the purpose, I think I can show that you correspondent, "A Caledonian," is not so conclusive in his arguments against the Trustees of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Boston School Difficulty— the Catholic Scholars Expelled for Refusing to Say the Protestant Form of the Lord's Prayer
Yesterday, says the Boston Courier of the 15th March, a difficulty occurred in the Eliot schools for boys, on account of the refusal of a portion of the scholars, whose parents are Catholic, to recite the…
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We are really not a little surprised at the spathy evinced by all calsses in matters of education. We fear that knowledge is for the most part easily accessible, or more corretly speaking, is thought to be so. Books are cheap…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →School of Arts. to the Editor of the Empire
SIR.—Being deeply interested in the completion of the alterations necessary to make the above building worthy of the important uses to which it is put, I request your kind insertion of a few remarks respecting it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opening of the School of Arts
With a promptitude worthy of every commendation the members of this young Institution determined to make a start, and although but partially prepared, resolved that the advantages of the reading room should…
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NEWSPAPERS in these days are generally considered as mercantile, speculations, in which a large circulation must be maintained. To this end it is necessary that all important parties should be pleased, and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Schoolmaster. No. Vi. Religion in Denominational Schools
WE very much regret the time we lost, and the injury we did to the poor children under the parson's care, we cannot say ours, during the time we were engaged in a Denominational school. Our master was also the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Schoolmaster. No. Vii. Secular Education
"And parables shall charm his heart while doctrines seem deud mystery."—Martin F. Tupper. These are days of reality, and men looking beyond mere appearances are not willing to be led they know…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rules and Regulations for Denominational Schools. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—It is now more than eleven years since the Denominational Board of Education in this colony was incorporated; but what have they done during that period? The Board has done no good; it is…
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William J. Stephens, Head Master-salary, £500; allowance, £13710s.; fees, £496; total, £113 10s. Edward Gratt, Mathematical Master—salary, £400; allowance, £58 16s.; fees, £298; total, £766. 16s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sabbath School Anniversary
THE anniversary tea meeting of the Surry Hills Wesleyan Sabbath Schools, was held yesterday evening in the Barker-street. Schoolroom. The company sat down to tea at half past six, and having partaken of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Schoolmaster. No.VIII. Secular Education
And parables shall charm his heart, while doctrines seem a dead mystery." — MARTIN F.TUPPER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EMPIRE. SIR,— We care not under what name we receive a system…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Campbelltown. Establishment of a School of Arts. [From Our Correspondent.]
ON Tuesday evening last, a public meeting was convened in the Assembly-room to organise a School of Arts. The large room, which has been most liberally granted by Thomas Chippendall, Esq., for a reading and lecture…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Church of England Teachers' Association
ON last Saturday the usual meeting of the Church of England Teacher's Association was held in St. James' schoolroom, Elizabeth-street, Mr. Boyd in the chair. The subject, for discussion was—"Can the English…
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ON Tuesday evening, August 30th, an interesting lecture on "Knowledge" was delivered by tho Rev. John Gibson; in the Assembly-room, Campbelltown. The l[?]rge room was crowded with a respectable audience, among whom…
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