Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-10-09
Education In ireland.

Tho. commissioners of national education u
Ireland have lust issued their report, ana II
the national school system IN Ireland can De
estimated merely bv the number OF children
an the rolls. according to the method OF emu
meration officially adopted, then ITS success
NAV be said to be great. The commissioner
consider. in the first place, the change tr;'t
has been wrought in the interest ieit by tAe
Irish in educational matters between the
wears 1851 and 1871. In lo6l the popsla-
ton of ireland. We are told, was found 10
he 5.-qq 600. and the children on the nation
nj school rolls 500 Sol in 1871 the poPuIa-
ton had declined. being then only >. 4u3,Ooo,
but the enrolled children had increased a.
much rs % per cent. they We're enumera-
ted a >. 02l roo in 1851 II per cent, or
yery nearly one in seven Of the population.
wa on the school roll in ISL the ratio
had risen to 10 per cent, or nearly - one IN
five of the population. The commissioner
thus strongly mark the progress made. Bnt
the average number Of children under daily
instruction and the number OF children on
the rolls are two and entirely different JhlI-~-
The average attendance in 1871, we are III
formed, was 363 $50, or little more than one
third of the children enrolled. The comm~-
-oner, admit, however. that their system OF
enrolment has tendency 10 eNaggerote the
score somewhat
Taking the fonl provinces of Ireland. We
! find that In Munster the average daily at
tenianceS are 10 per cent. on the enrollment@,
| in Counaught they only amount Ia 81 per
cent the averages I'm Ulster and le'noter
| being between thetwo Considerable care =
| taken bv the commissioners t. show Tire re
igiou- persuasion Of both scholars and
| teachers Roman Catholic pupils are more
| tlau -FOUR fold those Of all the other den7m-
nations put together. and even IN I-ter- the
province i'm which Professionalism holds The
greatest sway i'm ireland. the Roman Catholic
uupil- ou-uumher all the scholars ~ other
! denominations. The question Of a national
| system Of elementary education ia~ been p
| far successfully 4rappled with that we hnd
that uo le-~ than SOS out at 0@l+, or con
-idrl,sblv more than one-ha,t yle schools, are
MIXED schools. where Protestant ami Roman
! Carba'i,. children mingle. The maI9ritv q
] these ~.,-saucI mixed schools are unde1
Roman Catholic teachers; more than one
| fourth 1T them aGr under Protestant ceanief-
exclusively.
Il ga noticeable fact dat, Using r#,na
luUluber-. - 600 Protestant children are nm
der Roman Catholic rraeher-, ani -N'Wt
/ Ramau Catholic children arc under lrate~
tan, teachers: AMI thar in the ~gha'. WHERE
The teachers belong III sine two denomination
the number If children i NOT very elua-
IlV3isilej jhr majority being Pret"~-aut
Mixed schools show the largest Terg rataE- u
Protestant D -t-r the smallest in Munster
I'm thr latter province the proportion mt H'
linz auc-halG what il i in the former II
what numbers the Protestant ami the Roman
tCatholie children frequent the different mike
-.hoal- II exhibited hv tHe following ~Nna0
~i>. la0 Roman Catholic teachers exclusive
Hts. iu-tructiu- 26.N63 Protestant and 5"A,