Attendance at continuation schools is to be made compulsory under
the Bill. Every boy or girl who had not attended school to the age of sixteen or matriculated at a University would have to attend a continuation school to the age of eighteen for a maximum period of forty weeks of eight hours each during the year. Moreover, this instruction would be given in the day, and taken out of the employer's time—not in evening classes, by which the pupils who have been at work all day are very often too tired to benefit. In the country such classes would naturally be held in the winter months. Phyllical education would form an important part of the course. Mr. Fisher reminded employers that we must take long views in this matter of education. The employers—and, we would add, the workmen too—" have a supreme interest in the formation of industrial character." Every class must willingly make sacrifices if we are to become a thoroughly well-educated people.
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