Word: curely
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...board of the Vidette, elated by their newly acquired dignity, abuse the editorial "We," ad nauseam, but this will work its own cure without doubt. The Review is heavy reading...
...must not think, however, that I include all instructors in this category. There are occasionally some who survive this treatment, and, recovering their health of mind, exercise their reasoning faculty and dare to think, in spite of the prefect, in spite of the cure. This class certainly does not constitute a majority, and, in any case, at the first occasion they abandon a position which offers few advantages in return for numberless annoyances and troubles constantly recurring. Indeed, I have not been speaking so much of instructors in particular as of the whole class, and especially of the deplorable system...
First, the teacher is not his own master. Placed between the cure and the prefect, he is obliged to do the bidding of both. Under the control of the cure because the cure is a man of great influence, he is also attached to him by other ties. A teacher is usually very poor. The minimum salary that he receives certainly cannot make his position brilliant. It does not even render him independent. A capable and intelligent man rarely remains a teacher, because he has few chances of advancement, and is almost sure to die of hunger. Consequently, capable...
...what is for the child's interest. The state is more than a father to us. And thus it is with everything. The duty of inspecting the schools is confided to an inspector appointed for the purpose, and a departmental committee which always includes either the pastor or the cure. This committee, as well as the inspector, are always named by the administration through the person of the prefect or rector...