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both cautions and caustic. Throw
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my
Scheme is in advance of the actual attainments of local Schools,
for
we have strictly speaking no secondary schools as
yet.
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4. But I be-
lieve this new scheme will set local
Schools to work systematically in
the direction of secondary
education. What at present appears to be a mere
idea, will in a few years,
be
practically
realised not only by those Headmasters who have aounder conception of the educa-
tional needs of the Colony than the Headmaster of Queen's College
and Diocesan School possess, but by the latter two themselves, as com-
petition will carry
them also to
act in with the new Scheme if it is
adopted
by the Government.
Finally I beg to point out
that this new Scheme is so con-
structed as to admit of annual
revisions with a view to increase
the
value
of capitation
monetary grants and scholarships in pro-
portion to both the needs of local schools and the financial resources of the Colony.
(82)
The March, 1894.
E. J. Eitel,