604 On Technical Education * October, 
number, 1762, would amount to nearly £7 for each teacher. 
The tax-payer may pay for instructing young] men in 
Science at the Normal Science School at South Kensington, 
but it will be found in the long run that the most talented 
of them, after they have obtained the instruction, will not 
engage themselves as teachers on these terms, for they see 
not only the uncertainty which prevails as regards what 
may be awarded them for their labour, but they see also 
that their employment may be taken from them by an irre- 
sponsible official by the mere stroke of his pen, and the 
examples which show them the treatment they may be sub- 
jected to do not pass by them unheeded. 
In each Annual Report of the Department the cost per 
head is stated, and, as I consider that the statement as 
given is most misleading, we will, in concluding the present 
article, briefly investigate it. It is stated in the 29th Report 
that “ the average payment for each individual student under 
instruction was 14s. 2 d” for the sessional year 1880-81 ; this 
14s. zd. per head is arrived at by distributing the sum paid 
for results, viz., £43,519 2 s. 9 d., on the 61,177 pupils, and 
not on the number (about 26,000) which the teachers suc- 
ceeded in passing, and which they were paid £43,519 2 s. 9 d. 
for passing. But if it was calculated on the number passed, 
does that represent the whole cost to the country ? Has 
not the cost of the administrative machinery at South Ken- 
sington, the interest on the sum expended on the buildings, 
and the cost of the stationery and printing also to be taken 
into account ? I think so, and I think all accountants would 
agree with me. With regard to the printing and stationery 
alone, Mr. Matthew Arnold, one of the chief inspectors in 
the Education Department, draws attention to the extra- 
vagance on these items in the Department of Science and 
Art. 
(To be continued.) 
