Excerpt from A Survey of Education in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada: A Report to the Government to the Government of Saskatchewan The present educational survey of the Province is a natural result of this deep undercurrent of public sentiment, which first found expres sion at the hands of thoughtful educationists and' other leaders in the form of public propaganda through the press and on the rostrum. It is needless to go into details. Suffice it, that the first definite step leading to the present study was taken on June 22, 1915, when the Hon. Walter Scott, Premier and Minister of Education, made hi epochal address on the pending Bill respecting Schools. The Speaker emphasised, in the course of his pronouncement, that the time was rapidly approaching, if it were not already here, when the system itself should be radically changed, with the purpose of procuring for the children of Saskatchewan a better education and an education of greater service and utility to meet the conditions of the chief industry in the Province, which is agriculture. The Premier's address met with approval from Hon. W. B. Willoughby, k.c., the leader of the Opposition, who further expressed a conviction that the school system must be absolutely and entirely divorced from all politics and separated from all party influence. He further pledged the support of his party in such changes as those proposed by the Premier, indorsing the idea that it is a, matter in which the whole body of citizens in the Province should unite so that the real needs would be rendered evident and adequate reforms could be secured. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.