Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . ayed is not open to censure. THE uneventful character (from an educationalstandpoint) of the legislative session was, how-ever, broken by one incident of outstanding impor-tance. This was Mr. Marshalls scathing arraign-ment of the educational sins of past provincial ad-ministrations, and consequent-ly of the present system whichowes its existence to speech was noteworthy forthe excellence and purity ofth€ English used, and for theable manner in which the sub-ject matter was handled. Theeffort was worthy alike of theplace and of the theme. Th
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . ayed is not open to censure. THE uneventful character (from an educationalstandpoint) of the legislative session was, how-ever, broken by one incident of outstanding impor-tance. This was Mr. Marshalls scathing arraign-ment of the educational sins of past provincial ad-ministrations, and consequent-ly of the present system whichowes its existence to speech was noteworthy forthe excellence and purity ofth€ English used, and for theable manner in which the sub-ject matter was handled. Theeffort was worthy alike of theplace and of the theme. Thespeaker dealt principally withthe existing provision, or lackof provision, for supplying theprovince with an adequatenumber of trained and efficientteachers. In making this theinitial theme of his educationalpropaganda Mr. Marshall wasquite logical. You must beginwith the teacher, who is to anyeducational sytem as the key-stone to the arch. No matterhow excellent a system maybe, if it lacks trained teachersits excellence will be a paper. excellence only,never realizedin terms themost .striking feature of the entirespeech was the solid foundation ofconcrete facts upon which the argu-ments were built. In fact the value ofthe speech depends entirely upon certainstatements of facts that are matters ofofficial record. The accuracy of thesrstatements may be tested by anyone whocares to take the trouble to examinteasily accessible reports of the Education the statements are true the conclusions of thtspeaker are established; if the conclusions of thuspeaker are established the present system so far asthe teacher training department is concerned is abso-lutely worthless and the administrations which father-ed it stand openly condemned. That the statements ari-true is amply demonstrated by the circumstance thatsince their utterance—which was given the widest pub-licity—not one word has been uttered to impugn theiraccuracy. These statements of facts—
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