Its Aims and Aspirations, *3 



diagram (fig. 4) projected on the screen, he then illustrated an 

 educational programme showing a direct connection between 

 the Primary Schools and the Municipal Technical Institute and 

 the University. 



Mr. R. H. S. Reade proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. 

 Forth for his very able lecture. Although Belfast had been 

 slow to assimilate the idea of the necessity of technical in- 

 struction, he thought from what they had heard that they 

 might be satisfied that it had embarked on the course in a 

 right spirit, and that the work would be done properly under 

 the guidance of Mr. Forth. He had proved that evening that 

 he had grasped the whole subject of education, and showed 

 them that technical education was only a part of the great 

 system of education in the country, which ought to be co- 

 ordinated, and that technical instruction should form an 

 outgrowth from it. He had brought under their survey the 

 whole system of education, which he (Mr. Reade) believed was 

 bound to be taken up and re-organised if they were to hold 

 their place with the other nations of the world. 



Professor FitzGerald, in seconding the motion, thought the 

 Technical Instruction Committee was to be congratulated upon 

 the vanishing cf a large amount of obstruction which at one 

 time existed in the city — and he thought in the Corporation— 

 to counting many of those subjects as technical at all. It was 

 supposed then that technical instruction must necessarily be 

 confined absolutely to trade instruction, without teaching 

 anything in the matter of scientific subjects. With regard to 

 Mr. Forth's remarks in regard to primary schools, he did not 

 know what powers the Corporation possessed as to constituting 

 themselves managers under the National Board of any model 

 schools which might be established in the city. But now that 

 the Corporation had made a start in the matter of technical 

 education, after a delay of seventeen years, they would have to 

 do more. He had long ago advocated the establishment of a 

 system of evening continuation schools by the Corporation, and 



