1884.] 
On Technical Education. 
83 
Committee’s Report, which was printed in that year by 
order of the House of Commons. J 
. T . h at system, in my opinion, would never in the long run 
aid in promoting the progress of sound Scientific and Tech- 
nical Education : granted that the teacher when he first 
entered on his duties was not only thoroughly in earnest, 
but had the gieatest enthusiasm possible for his task, how 
long would that earnestness and enthusiasm last ? How 
long could he take that real and ardent interest in his pupils, 
which all true and effective teachers must take, in all the 
schools he visited ? The teaching given under such a system 
must after a time degenerate into a mere matter of routine 
with the teacher; and an energetic man would try to escape 
from the thraldom by seeking some other employment more 
congenial to his alteied views and wishes, and also more re- 
munerative, for he would soon learn by experience that he 
could look for no advancement as a teacher, and therefore, 
if he continued to teach, it must be the same dreary round 
yeai aftei yeai, vepeating the same lesson in each, until failing 
strength rendered him incapable of continuing it, and he 
would by that time have become unfitted for any other 
employment. 
But what would be the remuneration for teachers of this 
class? The teacher in Cornwall received £100 a year at 
the time Mr. Hunt gave his evidence ; but if we are to take 
the average amount paid by the Department of Science and 
Ait to Science teachers as the standard, it is evident that 
the scale of remuneration, for this class of teachers at least 
is decreasing ; for the average payment per teacher given by 
the Department in 1869 was £40, and in 1880-81 it was 
£24 13s. 11 d., being a decrease of more than 38 per cent. 
Such a teacher as Mr. Lant Carpenter describes, unless he 
got situated in a locality more than usually favourable in 
the cause of scientific education, or he had some means of 
his own, might end his days in the poorhouse. But Mr. 
Caipentei appeals to be unaware that such a system has 
forced itself on many of the Science teachers under the 
Department, owing to the small and precarious sums they 
earn on the vesult system. In the last article it was shown 
that in some cases the remuneration the teacher of an expe- 
rimental science received was less than a\d. per hour for the 
time he was occupied in preparing for and giving a lesson • 
this lavish remuneration, it will be observed, did not extend 
to the full hours of a working day, but only for the time he 
was occupied ; whereas the Dock labourers in London who 
are considered to belong to the lowest class of labourers in 
