Excerpt from Education and Educationists in Otago

This Volume is complementary to The Story of the Otago Church and Settlement which was recently issued from the Press, and is designed to give some information regarding the far-reaching and enlightened views of the Founders of Otago, and the wise and patriotic efforts which they made to promoto the educational interests of tho people. It traces the growth and gradual expansion of the Common School System, and of the leading educational Institutions and Agencies which have been in active operation within the province from the period of its settlement, in 1848, until the present year, and it touches briefly on the services renderod to the Cause by those who have stood in the van of the movement, and have stamped, in some measure, their own personality upon it.

For kind help rendered to mo in this undertaking I make grateful acknowledgment of my indebtedness to the Hon. George MacLean, Dr. John Hislop, of Dunedin, Dr. James Copland, of Gore, Rev. A. H. Stobo, of Invercargill, P. G. Pryde, Esq., Secretary of the Otago Education Board, and all other friends who have courteously replied to my inquiries, and furnished me with useful information on the subjects treated in the following pages.

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