§ MR. ADDERLEYsaid, he wished to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Whether he has any objection to lay upon the table a statement of the Examination to be passed by acting Teachers in order to obtain a certificate?
§ MR. LOWEsaid, in reply, that he might inform the right hon. Gentleman that the subjects of examination to which acting Teachers were subjected before they could obtain their certificates, embraced reading, writing, and arithmetic as far as Practice; the leading facts of geography, with a more detailed knowledge of the geography of the British Islands; the leading facts of British history, and, in the case of the Church of England schools, a knowledge of the Bible and Catechism. He had no objection to lay the Papers, relating to the examination, on the table.