The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-10 00:00:00

MILITARY EDUCATION COMMITTEE.

The following is a summary of the main recommenda-
tions contained in the second report of the Commiision on
Military Education :-
1. In regard to the superintendence of army schools,
that the duties of inspection in Ireland should be assimi-
lated to those in Great Britain, the office of acting
inspector in the former country being abolished, and the
superintending schoolmasters in both countries becoming
sub-inspectors, under a single inspector; that the number
of annual examinations of schools should be diminished;
and that the Indian should be amalgamated with the
Imperial school system.

2. In regard to children's schools, that the payment of
fees for the children of officers, non-commissioned officers,
and soldiers serving in the army should be abolished; and
that an organised system of industrial instruction for chil-
dren of both sexes should be introduced.

3. In regard to adult schools, that attendance at school
should be compulsory on recruits until they acquire a
certain amount of rudimentary education; that school
certificates should, except in very special cases, be made,
in time of peace, an indispensable condition of promo-
tion ; and that the utmost eneouragement possible should
be given to the formation of special classes.
4. In regard to the status of schoolmasters and school-
mistresses, that the rates of pay and pension granted to
them should be augmented ; that the advantages of their
position should be generally increased ; and that certain
regulations should be repealed, which appear to press
unfairly upon schoolmasters, or to lower the dignity of
their office.

5. In regard to recreation rooms, libraries, lectures, and
soldiers' institutes, that the system of regimental recrea-
tion rooms should be decidedly maintained in preference
to that of institutes beyond the precincts of the barracks ;
that fuller development should be given to the present
system of recreation rooms, by the general provision of
adequate accommodation for them, and by the applica-
tion of a portion of the canteen funds to purposes of
recreation ; and that suitable accommodation for lecture
halls should be provided in large garrisons.
6. In regard to the Normal School at Chelsea, that the
establishment should be abolished ; and that, in place of
the present system for training army schoolmasters,
civilian candidates for the appointment should be ob-
tained from civil training institutions, while military
candidates should, as a general rule, be trained in regi-
mental schools, with the opportunity afforded to them of
a short course at a civil training school.

7. In regard to the Model School at Chelsea, that the
establishment should be placed, both in regard to disci-
pline end instruction, under the immediate control of the
director-general of military education ; that alterations
should be made in its internal organisation, with the
object of placing the supervision over both discipline and
instruction in the same hands, and of extending the
authority of the instructors ; that an improved and ex-
tended system of industrial training should be adopted ;
that the school should be removed into the country ;, and
that, in the meantime, improvements should be effected
in its sanitary state, and in the accommodation and means
of recreation provided for the pupils.
8. In regard to the Hibernian School, that a diminution
should be made in the numbe, and alterations in the con
stitution, of the governing body ; and that improvements
should be effected in the organieation, sanitary state, and
accommodation of the establishment, simifar in principle
to those recommended in the case of the model school.
9. In regard to the School of Musketry at Hythe and
the system of musketry instruction, that the establish-
ment should be divested of all functions of inspection,
and should be considered as a normal school for the train-
ing only of officers and non-commissioned officers as
instructors ; that the inspection of musketry should be
made a portion of the duties of the Adjutant-General's
staff; that various improvements should be adopted in
the method of instruction and the general management of
the school at Hythe, and that the establishment should be
subject to periodical inspection ; that certain alterations
should be introduced in the general system of musketry
throughout the service (including a thorough revision and
abbreviation of the present regulation on the subject) ;
and, finally, should a system of regimental instruction be
adopted, that with the present duties of regimental
musketry instructors should be combined those of giving
instruction in other practical military duties.

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