Education in Scotland a Sketch of the Past And the Present
Education in Scotland a Sketch of the Past And the Present
J W John William Gibson
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57. ) EDUCATION IN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS 87 the parish school the subjects taught were English, writing, arithmetic, Latin, geography, navigation, and book-keeping. 1 In the first year of the nineteenth century there were in Lewis altogether three parish schools and four Society schools. 2 In 1810 the Presbytery select from three candidates a master for the Grammar School of Stornoway by examining them "in Latin, Greek, and the branches of education necessary to be taught by them. " 3 It is unn...ecessary to follow further the details of one district. Enough has been given to show that even in the remotest regions of the Highlands an earnest attempt was being made to supply schools for the use of the people, and that in some at least of these higher instruction was given. It is true that the need was greater than the supply, and that even at the end of the eighteenth century not a few High- land parishes were still without the school to which the Act of 1696 entitled them. In particular little had been done for the education of girls.
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