Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Ontario / / Susan Houston, Alison Prentice.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Houston, Susan,; Prentice, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)

Nineteenth-century educational reformers were fond of an agricultural metaphor when it came to the provision of more and better schooling: even good land, they argued, had to be cultiated; othersie noxious weeds sprang up. In this study of education in Ontario from the establishment of Upper Canada to the end of Egerton Ryerson's career as chief superintendent of schools in 1876, Susan Houston and Alison Prentice explore the roots of the provincial public school system, set up to instill a work ethic and moral discipline appropriate to the new society, as well as the beginnings of separate schools.today the Ontario school system is once again the subject of intense and often bitter deabte. Many of the most contentious issues have deep and complex roots that go back to this era. Houston and Prentice tell the story of how Ontario came to have a universal school system of exceptional quality and shed valuable light on an area of current concern.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Picture Credits -- The Ontario Historical Studies Series -- Preface -- Part One: Interpreting Pioneer Schooling -- 1. Family and State in Upper Canadian Education -- 2. Creating Schools and Scholars -- 3. Schoolmistresses and Schoolmasters -- Part Two: Mid-Nineteenth-Century School Reform -- 4. Towards a Government School System -- 5. The Battle for Control over Public Schools -- 6. Forging a Public School Teaching Force -- Part Three: Behind the Schoolroom Door -- 7. Going to School -- 8. What One Might Teach and Another Learn -- 9. Exceptions to the Rule -- 10. 'Wish I Were Not Here at the Present Juncture' -- Notes -- Index