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.
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A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
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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.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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