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is more objectionable than the educational bore. . . . 

 In the course of the last ten years, to go back no 

 farther, I am afraid to say how often I have ventured 

 to speak of education ; indeed, the only part of this 

 wide region into which, as yet, I have not adven- 

 tured, is that into which I propose to intrude to- 

 day." 



The choice of subject for this address was connected 

 with a larger campaign for the establishment of 

 technical education on a proper footing, which began 

 with his work on the School Board, and was this year 

 brought prominently before the public by another 

 address delivered at the Society of Arts. The Cloth- 

 workers Company had already been assisting the 

 Society of Arts in their efforts for the spread of 

 technical education; and in July 1877 a special 

 committee of the Guilds applied to him, amongst 

 half a dozen others, to furnish them with a report as 

 to the objects and methods of a scheme of technical 

 education. This paper fills sixteen pages in the 

 Report of the Livery Companies' Committee for 1878. 

 The fundamental principles on which he bases his 

 practical recommendations are contained in the 

 following paragraph : 



It appears to me that if every person who is engaged 

 in an industry had access to instruction in the scientific 

 principles on which that industry is based ; in the mode 

 of applying these principles to practice ; in the actual 

 use of the means and appliances employed ; in the 

 language of the people who know as much about the 

 matter as we do ourselves ; and lastly, in the art of 



