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asked what is the need of such control if the peo- 

 ple of the localities are the best judges, the ob- 

 vious reply is that there are localities and locali- 

 ties, and that while Manchester, or Liverpool, or 

 Birmingham, or Glasgow might, perhaps, be safe- 

 ly 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 crocheteers. 



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 the efficient teachers of science and of 

 technology are not to be made by the processes in 

 vogue at ordinary training colleges. The mem- 

 ory loaded with mere bookwork is not the thing 

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

 in the teacher of scientific subjects. It is abso- 

 lutely essential that his mind should be full of 

 knowledge 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 pro- 

 vinces, 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 in- 



