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that the following remarks apply to young persons of average ability ; for 
there is no limit to the success of a very able and persevering teacher. 
Let us suppose that a young man of eighteen joins a science school in his 
town, and that, taking up a single branch of science — Zoology and Animal 
Physiology — he attends two or three courses of evening lectures.*' He must 
be very dull indeed if he does not succeed during this period in obtaining 
first-class prizes in both subdivisions of his subject (to say nothing of bronze, 
silver, or gold medals), and he may then aspire to become in his turn a 
science teacher. This he does by passing his examination on the subject in 
question at South Kensington, Government paying his travelling expenses 
and the cost of his living in London. 
Here he may obtain a first, second, or third class teacher’s certificate ; and 
should he not be satisfied with one of a lower grade, he may “ improve ” it 
by presenting himself (always at the expense of the State), time after time, 
until he fairly succeeds in securing a certificate of the highest grade, and the 
emoluments accruing therefrom. 
Our candidate has, we will suppose, after two or three examinations, 
secured a first-class certificate in Zoology and Animal Physiology (having 
meanwhile conducted a small class, and received the grants which accom- 
pany one of a lower degree), t and, as we have hardly treated him in a com- 
plimentary manner, in supposing such repeated efforts to be needful in order 
to secure a first-class teacher’s certificate, we will take it for granted that, 
during his probation, he has also obtained one of the second degree in botany 
and Vegetable Physiology ; and that he has a small class, say of ten pupils in 
each subject, four or five of whom have passed the government examination, 
and three have obtained respectively a first, second, and third class Queen’s 
prize in each subject. During the year, when he shall have obtained these 
not very brilliant results, he will be entitled to draw from the coffer's of the 
Treasury the sum of T42, besides charging what he may consider fair to each 
of his students, or receiving a salary from the institution with which his 
classes are connected. 
And all this he may effect — his scientific education, as well as his teaching 
operations — without the slightest interference with his business pursuits, but 
only by a wise and elevating employment of his leisure time. So much for 
the exertions of a young person of ordinary abilities. A successful teacher 
may earn hundreds of pounds per annum, and may (as many doubtless will) 
at the same time attain a high position in society and in the State. 
With these few remarks we once more dismiss this important subject, and 
should any of our readers be desirous to aid the movement, either as 
teachers, students, or promoters of schools or classes, they will receive every 
needful information on applying to the Secretary of the Science and Art 
Department, South Kensington Museum, London. As for ourselves, we 
shall be most happy to give the scheme itself, or the efforts of individual 
teachers, every encouragement in our power, and we invite the various institu- 
tions to forward ixs their reports whenever they may deem it to their advantage. 
* His fees, text-books, &c., will cost him in all from 10s. to 30.?., according 
to the charge made by the committee of the school which he attends. 
t Under the new Code certificates of every grade are alike remunerative. 
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