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in the afternoon are taught the higher English subjects.
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I should infer that the combination of purely elementary and higher education in one institution dates from a time when there was little education in the Colony outside the Central School (now Queen's College), but under existing circumstances the college would seem to cover in its lower branches the same ground as is covered in the district elementary schools, with the difference that instruction is free at these latter schools, whereas at the college a fee is charged.
It would appear to be more natural that these schools should be exclusive of each other, that there should be one school or set of schools for purely elementary teaching and another for higher education, and that the latter should be fed with pupils from the former.
I am given to understand that this change might possibly be gradually brought about, by confining the district schools to very elementary teaching and by charging a fee in them for any subjects above the two lowest standards.