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the localities are the best judges, the obvious 

 reply is that there are localities and localities, 

 and that while Manchester, or Liverpool, or 

 Birmingham, or Glasgow might, perhaps, be 

 safely left to do as they thought fit, smaller towns, 

 in which there is less certainty of full discussion 

 by competent people of different ways of thinking, 

 might easily fall a prey to crotcheteers. 



Supposing our intermediate science teaching 

 and our technical schools and classes are estab- 

 lished, there is yet a third need to be supplied, 

 and that is the want of good teachers. And it is 

 necessary not only to get them, but to keep them 

 when you have got them. 



It is impossible to insist too strongly upon the 

 fact that efficient teachers of science and of tech- 

 nology are not to be made by the processes in 

 vogue at ordinary training colleges. The memory 

 loaded with mere bookwork is not the thinof 

 wanted — is, in fact, rather worse than useless — in 

 the teacher of scientific subjects. It is absolutely 

 essential that his mind should be full of know- 

 ledge and not of mere learning, and that what he 

 knows should have been learned in the laboratory 

 rather than in the library. There are happily 

 already, both in London and in the provinces, 

 various places in which such training is to be had, 

 and the main thing at present is to make it in the 

 first place accessible, and in the next indispensable, 

 to those who undertake the business of teaching. 



