On Technical Education. 
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continuously employed in teaching, and unfortunately it is a 
system that places the incompetent and the competent edu- 
cator on the same level. 
Such teaching can never benefit the industrial world ; it 
is more likely to have the contrary effeCt, for a little know- 
ledge of the Inductive Sciences is a dangerous thing, if the 
possessor of the ill-acquired and unsound information of any 
one of them attempts to apply his so-called scientific know- 
ledge to the improvement of any industry. I have given 
examples of this in my work “ Education, Scientific and 
Technical ; or how the Inductive Sciences are Taught and 
how they ought to be Taught,” and I could, out of my own 
experience, add many more. 
I must press yet another question on those of our Senators, 
whether they be landlords or manufacturers, who have to 
employ high-class labour, whether that labour be brainwork 
or handwork, if they can obtain it on the following terms : 
the payment to be so far uncertain that the labourer is to 
have no say as to what is awarded him ; but even after 
some payment has been awarded him by one set of his 
employers’ employees, another set of his employees can 
reduce the payment awarded by the former set, or even not 
allow any payment at all ; yet these are the conditions the 
well-paid permanent officials at South Kensington impose 
on the Science teachers, and our Senators sanction it by 
voting the public money on these conditions, and yet they 
know by experience they are not able to obtain for them- 
selves high-class labour on any such terms. 
It may be replied that 1762 teachers have engaged on 
these terms ; theanswer I make to that statement is this — 
that if these teachers, or any considerable number of them, 
are able on these terms so to teach their pupils, they be- 
come by reason of that instruction the improvers of the 
industries of the country, the sooner our Members of Par- 
liament urge the Government to pay all the permanent 
officials, from the highest to the lowest, at South Kensing- 
ton, in the same way the better, for then we should — 
according to these officials’ doCtrine — obtain the best labour 
at the cheapest rate. 
It may also be urged, in reply, that the teachers are not 
altogether dependent on the payment on results, as fees are 
paid by some at least of the pupils : even if these fees are 
real in all cases — which I believe is not always the case — 
the total for the United Kingdom amounted in the year 
1880-81 to £12,120 17s. 6 d, : this divided amongst the total 
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