In Ireland, for instance, such a system would be, in my opinion, simply retrograde.

The Irishman, to his honour, has passed, centuries since, beyond the stage at which he requires to be educated by a priesthood in the primary laws of religion and morality.

His morality is--on certain important points--superior to that of almost any people.

What he needs is to be trained to loyalty and order; to be brought more in contact with the secular science and civilisation of the rest of Europe: and that must be done by a secular, and not by an ecclesiastical system of education.
The higher education, in Trinidad, seems in a more satisfactory state than the elementary.

The young ladies, many of them, go 'home'-- i.e.to England or France--for their schooling; and some of the young men to Oxford, Cambridge, London, or Edinburgh.