1884.] 
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VI. ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 
By Robert Galloway, M.R.I.A. 
[(Continued from page 92.) 
Ia 1 article t that the Science 
(5) 10n ot the Department of Science and Art was 
thoroughly reformed it would strangle real scientific 
education m the future, as it had done in the past Th!? 
it has done so in the past has, I think, been made apparent 
in former articles ; that it must continue to do so as ?ong as 
the teacher s payment depends solely on the marks won hv 
his pupils in the examinations is evident ; for such a system 
0ption ’~ he must cr/m his 
students to have a chance of earning a living- Yet everv 
effiment teacher knows too well, as the Reftor of Lincoln 
College Oxford, has stated, “that this process-preparing 
pupils for examinations— is incompatible with genuine in 
f" ‘S'sTstatcflhS ft* ScienCe '”. The same high authority 
ias also stated that the examination system was destroying 
SS ‘fhd n f 0t k- forgottefl, inconnedioS 
1? ession, that of all the examination systems at 
piesent in vogue in the United Kingdom, the Department 
system „ the very worst, for the teacher’s payment depends 
solely on h,s pupils obtaining a certain number of marks 
thp i at ] the examinatlon i lf they do not obtain that number 
the teacher receives no pay for teaching them. Mr Justice 
Fry, m an Address at the Salt School, Shipley said “Know 
ledge is divine, but cram is a demon.” Y ° W ' 
Institute complain in their Reports that competent i ^ 
aren tt0 b with ; “ this* want LS'XXhe 
ormation of technical classes in many placeswhere such 
c asses are greatly needed.” It is evident from this that the 
Department’s system has failed to furnish com ppW 
technical instruction promoted 
, . y Dn Ids. The Depaitment s own examiners 
complain, as we have shown in former articles, of the quality 
Vhn e i tea o mg glV f n in the De Pai'tment’s own Science 
Schools. Our manufacturers, and others interested in th* 
ultivation and diffusion of sound Scientific and Technical 
Education, are also not satisfied with the results whtYfi fit * 
been obtained by the Department’s sysLTafte r tfneary 
