Traditional education in Canada emphasizes intellectual training and book knowledge, and the curriculum is rigorous but divorced from reality, which is Herbart's educational thought, which is called Victorian education in Canada.

Victorian education was conservative, strict, rigid, hypocritical, formal, and so on. Today's psychological analysis is oppressive and unnatural. For example, British children who grew up under Victorian education may only have a fixed day to bounce and play under their parents' beds every week, and even if such a day of weekly expectation comes, they must abide by the norm that parents and children should play together.