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Chapter 17

YEAR OF REVOLUTIONS

D norHrn RvrcN spENT THE MoNTH or Mey, 1848, in
.l-t England, bur he was too absorbed in his dreamed-
about training school for teachers to act the clucking
hen chicks. While the pioneerin[
-over,newly-hatched
Brothers learned by doing he traveled hithei and yon,
interviewing several of the bishops.
,,Tab-
An article in the April l4th issue of the London
let" stirred him to greater efiort in behalf of his project
and at the same time gave him a more definite objective.
The proposal to widen the scope of the Goveinment
grants-in-aid had been placed before parliament and fav-
orable action was anticipated. The writer of the .,Tab-
let" article presumed as much, for looking ahead to the
future he was proposing the method in which the train-
ing schools under ,Catholic control should be stafied.
Having pointed our the needs of the more than 100,000
Catholic children deprived of any education and per-
haps, for the informition of somi mern-bers of pailia-
ment, the fact that this number was being daily increased
by conversions to the Faith, by Irish immigration, and
by the regular increase in population, he warned the
members of the Catholic Poor-schools Committee and
through them the bishops that, "Any improvement will
remain insufficient so long as we neglect to establish
normal schools for male and female teachers who through
studies can be prepared for their job and w[o
ldeq-u-a1e
should be governed or bound by religious vo*s.,,
The words, "Governed or bound Ly religious vows,,
were to Ryken a clap of thunder sounding bn the lett.