I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

What we want is a system which, while tolerating all religious beliefs, places them on a footing of perfect equality.

I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.