National education, Ireland : letter from the Right Hon. Chichester S. Fortescue ... to the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, on the organisation and government of training and model schools : together with the answer of the Commissioners, and other statements and documents referring thereto.

  • Carlingford, Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron, 1823-1898.
Date:
1867
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Credit: National education, Ireland : letter from the Right Hon. Chichester S. Fortescue ... to the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, on the organisation and government of training and model schools : together with the answer of the Commissioners, and other statements and documents referring thereto. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 adoption of any particular details, they beg to express their general approbation of those proposals, and their readiness to co-operate -with the Government in carrying them into practical effect, keep- ino' always in view the. fundamental principles of United Secular Education.—We have, &c., (Signed), James Kelly, \ Wm. M'Creedy, J Secretaries, Thu Right Hon. C. S. Forteacue, M.P., Chief Secretary, Irish OlEce, London. IT. Statement in Beply to the Letter of the Right Hon. C. S. Fortescue, M.F., on the Organisation and Government of Model Schools, ^c. The Committee appointed at a public meeting of the friends of United National Education, which was held in Belfast on Tuesday, the 15th January, 1867, have had their attention directed to a letter, dated 19th June, 1866, addressed by the Right Hon. C. S. Fortescue, late Chief Secretary for Ireland, to the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland. This letter was printed in return to an order of the House of Commons, dated 19th July, 1866. It deals with the subject of the Organisation and Govern- ment of Training and Model Schools, and with the principle upon which the remuneration of Teachers of Schools supported by the State ought to be regulated. The Commissioners, in their reply, dated July 2, 1866, “ without binding themselves to the adoption of any particular details,” “ express their general approval of the proposals made, and their readiness to co-operate with the Goveimment in carrying them into practical effect.” The Committee are deeply impressed with a sense of the importance of the subjects referred to in this correspondence, aud of their bearing upon the Educational in- terests of the country, and they feel it incumbent upon them to lay their views before both the Government and the public. The first point to which, in this letter, the attention of the Commissioners is called is the Training of Teachers in Model Schools. They are reminded that “ it was originally laid down by Lord Derby, as a condition of the employment of teachers, that they should have received previous instruction in a Model School,” but now, after the lapse of thirty-five years, “ there are still in the National Schools,” 'it is stated, “4,309 untrained teachers out of a total of 7,472.” In this statement there is no