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On Technical Education* 
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V. ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 
By Robert Galloway, M.R.I.A. 
(Continued from vol. iv., page 576.) 
f N the last article on Technical Education it was stated 
that some of the more important differences in the 
systems of teaching adopted in England and Germany 
would be compared in some of the following articles on this 
subject. 
We will commence by contrasting the plan that has to be 
followed in all the schools, with the few exceptions to be 
presently named, under the Department of Science and Art, 
with the methods of instruction followed in corresponding 
educational institutions in Germany. 
Payment on results is the centre round which the whole 
system of teaching in the Department of Science and Art 
Schools revolves, with the exception of the Science and 
Art Schools or Colleges at South Kensington and the corre- 
sponding ones in Dublin ; the reasons assigned for these 
exceptions, and the plan and management of these excep- 
tional institutions, will be deferred until the necessity for a 
Minister of Education comes to be considered. 
When the present Chairman of Committees of the House 
of Commons, the Right Hon. Lyon Playfair, was Secretary 
of Science in the Department, the payment on result system 
was not the one followed ; but shortly after he left it was 
established in that, and afterwards in the Art, branch. When 
Government Schools of Art were also first established in 
England the teachers of Art were paid by salary ;■ afterwards 
by the certificates of qualification they had obtained ; and 
subsequently the present system— payment on results of in- 
struction as tested by the examination of the students — was 
substituted for payment by certificates. But the^ teacher 
does not receive payment on results for every class of stu- 
dents, but only for those who are in the receipt of weekly 
wages, and their children ; or persons in the receipt of not 
more than £200 a year, and also their children, and teachers 
and pupil teachers in some elementary schools. 
As payment on results is the centre, as we have already 
stated, around which the system of instruction under the 
Department revolves, it is desirable at the outset of our 
investigation to learn what advantages the Department 
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