Then again, even where the physical conditions are reasonable, the programme lacks actuality.
It is unpractical, out of touch with the facts of life and locality, a veritable castle hung absurdly in the air and not based on any solid foundation.

The view still lingers in high places that the business of education is to break the spirit of a people, to put them down and not to lift them up.

In token of this, the teachers are denied the civil rights of freemen.

Now all these ineptitudes are contrary to the humane tradition of Ireland.

Go they must, but, when an Irish Parliament starts to remove them, I cannot imagine Captain Craig, with a Union Jack wrapped around his bosom, straddling like Apollyon across the path.