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individual, and until his position was elevated and he was 

 removed from being the slave of the manager, matters never 

 would be right. Although teachers are paid by the State, 

 many of them were slaves to the managers, which should not 

 be the case. They wanted a proper guiding hand to undertake 

 the co-ordination of primary, secondary, and university 

 education. Coming to the matter of technical education, it 

 was well to point out that at the present time there was a 

 Commission of Inquiry sitting in this country inquiring into 

 technical education, and it was a very extraordinary body. 

 The Irish members of that Commission, who sat recently in 

 Dublin, and took evidence on technical education, were 

 excellent men in their own way, but there was not one 

 of them who was fit to deal with technical education, and only 

 one known to have had a scientific education. That solitary 

 individual was a pathologist, not likely to have much knowledge 

 of trade and industry. He would not like to say much about 

 their finding on technical education, but he did know a 

 remarkable fact, that two gentlemen who could have given 

 valuable evidence, and who tendered it, had not yet been 

 examined. It was to be hoped their evidence would be taken 

 at a later sitting. 



Mr. William Gray, was of the opinion that the prospects 

 were exceedingly encouraging, judging by the number of 

 pupils who were coming forward, and they trusted that the 

 anticipations of Mr. Forth would be fully realised. The time 

 had come when they ought to take some positive steps in 

 Belfast to improve the primary education of the rising 

 generation. 



Dr. MacCormac held that teaching results would accrue 

 mentally to those attending the continuation schools. 



The Chairman then put the motion, which was passed by 

 acclamation. 



