Download or read book Inventing Secondary Education written by Robert Douglas Gidney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The received view is that secondary education in Ontario is a result of Egerton Ryerson's Education Act of 1871. But R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar show that Ryerson and the Provincial Education Office responded to rather than directed policy in higher education. In fact, the system in place today is evidence of Ryerson's failure to implement the programs he wanted.