the opinions of his real masters, and learns to reflect the
opinions which he knows to be in favour with the Board.

"The model schools are established partly to complete the
training of the masters, and partly to force upon the
country the entire system of the Board. Of these schools the
commissioners themselves are the patrons, and in these they
have full power of enforcing their own views. What they
'earnestly recommend' to others, they are able to adopt in
their own schools. Money is lavished upon these model
schools, so as to make them establishments of a superior
order. The model school in Marlborough Street is maintained
at an expense of L3,500. One in Belfast costs very nearly
the same sum. Most of this money is expended in the salaries
and maintenance of pupil teachers, so that these model
schools are, in effect, colleges, with their exhibitions to
attract students. Over these model schools the commissioners
have absolute control, and through them, and by means of
them, they exercise an almost absolute influence over the
whole system of education in connection with the Board. This
is, in effect, the carrying out of the plan indicated in the
report of 1835. Centralization is secured by an array of
schoolmasters, trained under the Commissioners. No man can
attain the rank of a first-class national schoolmaster who
has not gone through a training in an establishment
conducted after the most approved fashion of the Board--a
training by which he becomes thoroughly indoctrinated in all
the maxims of that fashion. He is not sent to a model school
merely to see the best mode of arranging classes or
maintaining the discipline of the school. He is sent there
to reside as the student of a college, to learn various
departments of knowledge. He is taught, in his training,
history, political economy, mental philosophy, and
scriptural history--and he learns them all in lesson books
prepared to order for the Commissioners, and by catechetical
instruction, in which he is drilled by professors and
inspectors appointed at their sole nomination.

"I pass, for the present, from this part of the subject,
with this one observation--that this sum of L80,000 is
annually expended upon a portion of the system with which
local exertion or l