Seventy Years Of Progress In Education An Abbreviated Historical Outline Of The Department Of Education Province Of Saskatchewan 1884 1954

Author : Harold W. Foght
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330772836
Total Pages : 198 pages
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Download or read book A Survey of Education in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada written by Harold W. Foght and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Survey of Education in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada: A Report to the Government to the Government of Saskatchewan Developments Leading to the Survey. - Everywhere on the North American Continent today and particularly in those sections where economic and civic life is most dynamic, there is a deepseated public feeling that educational institutions have not kept pace with the rapidly advancing life of modern civilisation. North America, it is shown, has long ago passed through its period of pioneering; the middle stage of exploitation and wastefulness of natural resources is now beginning to yield to organised, efficient, industrial life; but the schools, it is argued, have been slow to respond to changing national life. To meet these demands educators have hastened to add new subjects to the old curriculum, in many instances eliminating much of the old time-honoured subject matter to make place for the new. This eudeavour to meet public sentiment has been based more upon personal assumption than upon critical knowledge. The results have been unfortunate. More recently, however, the whole educational system is being subjected to careful scientific study, or "survey," as the basis for reorganisation. Saskatchewan, in common with the other prairie provinces of Canada, is dominated by people of progressive type - forward looking people, who have shown a striking determination to escape the hindering influence of back-eastern conservatism by taking action before their educational institutions shall become afflicted with inertness, resulting in failure to respond to the changing life of their democratic civilisation. The present educational survey of the Province is a natural result of this deep undercurrent of public sentiment, which first found expression at the hands of thoughtful educationists and other leaders in the form of public propaganda through the press and on the rostrum. It is needless to go into details. Suffice it, that the first definite step leading to the present study was taken on June 22, 1915, when the Hon. Walter Scott, Premier and Minister of Education, made his epochal address on the pending Bill respecting Schools. The speaker emphasised, in the course of his pronouncement, that "the time was rapidly approaching, if it were not already here, when the system itself should be radically changed, with the purpose of procuring for the children of Saskatchewan a better education and an education of greater service and utility to meet the conditions of the chief industry in the Province, which is agriculture." The Premier's address met with approval from Hon. W. B. Willoughby, K.C., the leader of the Opposition, who further expressed a conviction that "the school system must be absolutely and entirely divorced from all politics and separated from all party influence." He further pledged "the support of his party in such changes as those proposed by the Premier, indorsing the idea that it Is a matter in which the whole body of citizens in the Province should unite so that the real needs would be rendered evident and adequate reforms could be secured." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.