The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-08-11
|S|R B. W|NDlE UPON
| IRISH EDUCATION
Many Trfshmen II Is Claimed. Are
"Hewers Of Wood" Because of
Lack OF Training.

| Dublin. Ireland-Sir Hugh Barrie,
NJ. P. speaking at the fifteenth con-
gress of the Irish Technical associa-
ton in Dublin. said that his audience
| would not be drawing on their imagi-
nation If they pictured him as sitting
constantly on the doorstep of the
treasury asking for funds. He hoped
shortly 10 announce that a grant had
been received and that funds would no
longer be delayed. In spite OF all their
acknowledgements, a high note had been
maintained In their work: the number
lof their students throughout the coun-
try was now higher than il had ever
been before He hoped that in the
future technical instruction would De
SO developed in its advanced stages
that they in ireland would be able to
lead the way in showing what could he
done in fostering native talent
Need for Competent Teachers.
The president, Sir Bertram windle,
n, 5. G., said that during the fifteen
years he had been president there had
been bitter and continuous cry for
money, so far unsatisfied Since their
last congress a new world was being
SNAPPED, and he thought that more CON
structiVe work. and less yitrioiic criti-
cisn, seemed the thing to be desired
IN the country Little had so for been
done for technical, education. He had
sometimes been told that you should
/ mink first of your pupils" but his re-
ply was, that in thinking Of the teach
ers he was, in fact. thinking Of the
upplIs, for whom the teachers existed
without teachers there could be no
pupils taught. and without satisfactory
teachers there could be no good teach
| ing. There was in Ireland no lack OF
| love of learning and no shortage of
students To make the best of their
material 1t was necessary to supply
them with competent. contented in
structors
"hen he was young man much
USED to be heard about the three
$, The program for the teachers
rnish. also be summed up under three
fs-nxity OF tenure fair salaries. free
dom from anxiety for the future The
teacher had right to feel that so
long as he lived clean. good life and
| taught well he was secure in his posi-
uon- The claim for fair salaries was
modest one and applied to all classes
OF TEACHERS. There were numbers of
| teachers spending long hours in In
struction. and much of their snare
ume IN improving themselves. who
ala not get the wages of CARPENTER
y. HiiHeit OF any other kind of me-
chan.c- He had always urged and
would continue to urge that the man
VINO earned his bread by his intellect
was just as much a workingman as he
VINO gained his living by the sweat of
ms prov, and had the same right 10
living wage. decent comfort and
reasonable leisure.
ne himself (Slr Bertram) had
spent the frst third of his life In Ire
iano obtaining his education. and the
second third in England earning his
| hFlng, and he had been concerned
win many organizations for the bene-
II. OF MS brother Irishmen in England.
| ne overwhelming majority were in
what are commonly called the lower
walks OF hfe-navvies. payione ava
| me IKE. Why? Not for want of in
| teiiigence, of which they had no snort
age put because OF lack Of training
Tor any better positions WHY were
ocotsmen seen IN all sorts of leadinr
positions, and Irishmen "a ..he-rers al
WOOD and drawers OF water"7 Pa,
cause scotland had the best and Ire.
iahu the worst system of education ir
the British Isles He wished to urpe
that the youth of Ireland should be
gwen the chance of such education ar
would enable them to rise, wherevey
the ymlght be, to such positions
| they might be fitted to occunv This
they could not have If technics, in
slruction were to be starved for war,
| of money ""n'