 I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Creating a nation requires the will of the people! |
| It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education. |
| 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. |
