![]() Here also he gained the favour of his teachers. Superintendent and Tutor respectively of the College. Walcott was brought under the influence of the late Bishop C. On the removal of the Training College to Spanish Town in the Summer of July, 1876 Mr. Ashby, late Wesleyan Minister, Herbert F. ![]() His College contemporaries were Hugh John McKay, G. Walcott entered the Government Training College then at Stoney Hill, as a student in January, 1875. Douce now Anglican Minister at Highgate, who recognizing his pupil's intelligence and aptitude for teaching directed his energies towards preparing him for the teaching profession. Scholefield, an Englishman, who then held the position of Catechist and schoolmaster of the St. ![]() On the removal of this gentleman from the school, young Walcott's parents placed him under Mr. Walcott says seems to have been one of the best of his day, and of whom he cherishes grateful memories. Peter Allen of Whitby in Manchester, who Mr. His progress was rapid and he was soon at the top of his class and primus of his school. But it was in the boy to rise, and he did so despite disadvantages. Some of these men were as a fact poorly equipped educationally. It was not always his teachers that rendered his early training of such marked importance. Young Walcott like many another Jamaica youth who has risen gloried in hard work from early in life, and very soon the spirit of enterprise and the desire to succeed manifested itself. To see that work one must visit West Branch School for himself, must see hundreds of boys and girls busy at work, must observe the effects of the teaching on the children’s conduct and character, and must follow them as they go forth to fight the battle of life. ![]() It must be remarked that these marks are not mentioned as a measure of Mr. This school within two years gained first class marks and has since going up, up, up, and now has over 70 marks. Ann, he took charge of West Branch School, Kingston, in July,1882, then a low third class school with a very poor attendance - a school that one with less faith in his powers would have shrunk from. After teaching at Myersfield in Westmoreland and subsequently in St. Walcott was, though for a brief period, an assistant tutor in the college shows that he had won the esteem and confidence of the college authorities. He was trained at the Government Training College, which was the college at that time. Walcott has nobly kept up the traditions of that parish. Who has been at the helm? Who has steered the ship through rough winds and over billowy seas? That captain is the subject of this sketch. “The little insignificant West Branch school of twenty years ago has become, if not the foremost, one of the foremost schools in the Island. At first his complaint might have been that there was too much room, now it is that there is too little. In the place of one school he would find three departments each bigger than its parent, and instead of one certificated teacher, several who have their parchment. Were he to visit now the former scene of his musings he would find a fine church consecrated to All the Saints, with a fine organ, a good congregation, and a regular officiating priest. The clamour of quarrelling men and women, the noise of rude urchins, the dirtiness of the street, a dead fowl here, and a dead dog there, and the dinginess of the houses formed, rather, the object of sober thought for your would-be moralist who little thought that the little school was destined to be the means of changing the whole neighbourhood. “Any one passing down West Street, twenty years ago, would hardly notice the little mission school on his left and the ugly looking little square building which stood facing the gate some distance in the teacher’s house.
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