ABSTRACT
Teaching, as a result, has become a profession characterized by struggle. This chapter presents some historical eras in Quebec teacher education that parallel the progression of public schooling in the province. The teacher education that was provided to members of the religious orders reflected in large part the content that they themselves would thereafter deliver; namely, the religious tenants of the Catholic faith. Public education would ultimately develop in Lower Canada as a dual system of schooling operating and functioning separately, but in a parallel direction, throughout the province, creating, as one historian has called it, the "two worlds of Quebec Education". Teacher training in the traditional era operated within that framework. The report on education represented one of many social, economic, and political changes that shaped the Quiet Revolution—a movement towards control over the province by a secular and democratic Quebec government more directly representative of the French-speaking population.
