EDUCATION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XVI, Issue 912, 7 August 1861, Page 3

EDUCATION.

To the Editor of the Lyttelton Times.

Sin,—l hope you will grant me a little space while I try and set myself right with " a Parish Curate."

The respect I feel for his class in general, caused me to pay careful attention to the remarks which your correspondent let drop on the very important subject of education. If I have misrepresented what he stated, I much regret it. But I cannot perceive that I have done so; and your readers must judge between us.

What still strikes me as so repugnant in the notions he has published, is his disguising public aid to make it seem of a different nature from private local aid. For my part I wish every man would do his best to provide his own necessaries ; but when of himself he cannot do so, let not professed instructors teach him to refuse any proffers of kind neighbourly help, in order, forsooth, to preserve his " honest pride," this same " honest pride " being all the while to be fed by systematic help, colddrawn from the whole of the nation, neighbours, and rich and very poor and all, without any distinction.

" A Parish Curate " means well I believe, hut thesubject of his discussion will not brook a hasty notice.

Unless I may be able to furnish any information required to supplement what I had the honor of giving before, I will not again trespass on your space. I am, Sir, yours obediently, X V Z Christchurch, 31 Jnly, 1861.