EDUCATIONAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2954, 13 September 1882, Page 2

EDUCATIONAL.

[TO THE EDITOR.]

Sib,— Please to allow me space for a few remarks on the letter of “One Interested," which appeared in your columns of last evening. I certainly agree with your correspondent, that Government schools (it wo can believe everything we read of them in your columns) require his most paternal care, and should be a subject of the deepest anxiety and concern to him. His attention to Catholic schools and their teachers, I consider a pronounced insult. Catholic schools are self-supporting, and must either stand or fall upon the merits or demerits of their system. When the Catholics come to receive pnblic aid for their schools, your correspondent may then assume to himself the role of a dictator, as to the teaching and inspection of oUr schools.. It was both base and unmanly in him to attack private enterprise’; ah enterprise, too, which is supported so magnanimously and unselfishly by the members of its own community alone., I feel quite certain that the present teacher of the Catholic school in no wise feels complimented by the enviable distinction and selection your correspondent has made of him. It may have been intended for ; a compliment, but I am certain he will not regard it as such. His standing, whatever it may be, is regarded as favorably by bis own community as by your correspondent. It is also equally certain if our. Catholic teacher had not a just claim to the position he holds, “ One Interested ” would also sweep him out with the long-handled brush, of his’unjust criticism, as common .rubbish or a “ spoil-trade,’’ as he has most uncourteously designated the teachers of our,Catholic schools.—l am; &c., J.M.