Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-05-14 | Page 22 | Educate Rich Fools; Neglect Smart Poor

EDUCATE 81 FOOLS; ELECT 11T POOR Protestant Primate of Ireland Complains of England's Educational Edu-cational Policy. Special Cable to Tho Tribune. DUBLIN", May 13. At the recent congress con-gress of tho National Public School Teachers held at Bangor, the national president. Edward Mansfield, denounced the British government for Its neglect of Irish educational Interests. The Protestant Prot-estant primate of Ireland, who preceded him, said: "If wise legislators realized what was best for the country and, least expensive, expen-sive, they would count no amount of money loo great to be expended on education, edu-cation, remembering the force of the old lines 'to work, to work with joy and hope; let ns bo. doing all we can. Belter build schoolrooms for the boy than cells and gibbets for the man.' "Interested officials are wont to sneer at our fears, to preach content to those without the gales, to lull us Into false security while the giant robber from across tho border, aided by his ally within with-in the fold, Is gathering Into his granaries gran-aries tho grain he sowed not. But while tlic Irish teucher Is forced to breathe the atmosphere of slavery, while buildings are the shame of a great empire. In many-cases many-cases mere hovels, death traps to pupils and teachers: while the programmes, plagiarized from the wastepapcr baskets of England, are not only unsultcd to the needs of our people, but are, from being overloaded, absolutely Impossible: while the Inspectors arc simply worrying the teacher and giving higher education to mediocre boys of well-to-do parents, leaving the talented son of the poor man to toll because his father tolled, brilliant boys are compelled to sweep the roads over which boobies whirl In motors, purchased pur-chased at the common charge. The teacher sees, at the end of his long and rugged road, ' the state holding in one hand a miserable dole which in mockery it labels 'pension,' and Indicating with the finger of the other the position of the workhouse ward. In short, while Irish education Is in Its present relatively unsatisfactory un-satisfactory condition, I cannot be blamed if, Instead of asking you to sheathe your only weapon, I advise persistent agitation."