Documents
in Quebec History
Last
revised: 23 August 2000 | Tentative
de créer un Ministère de l'Instruction publique / Attempt to create a Ministry
of Education, 1897-1898
Liberal
Party Educational Programme [1897] "It
is almost certain that our leaders, so committed to anything connected to the
question of education, are first attempting the lay the following four bases:
- creation of a Ministry of education;
- uniformity
of school books;
- improvement to the
status of teachers;
- a more equitable
sharing in the subsidies distributed to the various institutions in the province."
Source:
Louis Philippe Audet, « Le projet de ministère de l'instruction publique en 1897
», in Mémoires de la société royale du Canada, Vol. 1, Fourth series, June
1963, 133-161, p. 135. ©
For the translation, 2000 Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College |