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mendable to leave the question to the Auditor-General, to 

 be fought out in the law-courts. The only alternative was 

 to leave the decision to an appropriate State authority. 

 If it is asked what is the need of such control if the 

 people of 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 Glas- 

 gow 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 crocheteers. 



Supposing our intermediate science teaching and our 

 technical schools and classes are established, 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 memory loaded with mere book- 

 work is not the thing 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 

 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 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. But when the well-trained men are sup- 

 plied, it must be recollected that the profession of 

 teacher is not a very lucrative or otherwise tempting one, 

 and that it may be advisable to offer special inducements 

 to good men to remain in it. These, however, are ques- 



