Excerpt from The Journal of Education, Vol. 19: For the Province of Quebec, 1875

Here we find added to the school room the class-room, a significant. Feature, not forming part of the earliest infant schools any more than of earliest schools for older children, but adopted on account of its great utility, if not necessity. And the further we go the more importance shall be learn to attach to the provision of separate rooms for separate classes.

It is always desirable for Infant schools to be on the ground ¿oor, as the steps. Up to a school room on an upper floor, which are no very serious evils in the case of some advanced children, are dangerous and difficult for infants. A width of 24 to 25 feet is desirable for the general school-room, and the education department requires the area of school and class rooms together to reach eight feet of floor for each infant. It is not considered that more than 250 infants can be, as a rule, managed with success under one head teacher of ordinary capacity and if the requirements of the district call for a larger amount of accommodation, it will be better to build two infant schools. It is also considered that 70 is as large a number as one teacher can usefully instruct at one time, and therefore the largest gallery in an infant schools had better not seat more children. In very large infant schools two such galleries may be placed side by side, with a sliding partition to separate them.

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