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Technical Education

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
January
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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Atirió time in the world's bistory Las more attention been directed to technical education thaa at the present. The need of giving young men instruction in industrial branckes with the same thoroughness that is given the lavv or medical student is urgently feit. Those who saw ai the I'aris Exposition the product of the National Scientific School at Zurich, which with a population of about 500,000 supports an industrial school at an annual cost of $100,000, or the goods made by the technical industrial schools of Germany, France and Belgium, recognized the improvement in quality effected by cooperative education and technical training. liussia and Frauce are doing most in the way of industrial education. ïhe schools of the former country receirve lil)eral support f rom the government, aud pupils learn to beeome civil or mechanical engineers or skilled vvorkmea and forera en in construction shops. The school buildings tire well equipped with machiuery, and the time of instruction is f'our and a half hours per day, with üve hours for practical work. The French schools manufacture articles for sale. Those of Switzerland pay almost exclusive attention to watchniaking. ïhere are eighty industrial schools, with 4,000 pupils, in Austria. England has awakeued to the importauce of industrial education, and a number of institutions for instruction in the arts and sciences which pertain to England's great manufactures have been, and are now being, established in tiiat country, especially in the textile districts of Yórkshire. These are maintained largely by trade association. America has got to meet the question soon. We have colleges which instruct for the prof essions, commercial colleges and schools of science, but our resources forgivinga practical educalion ia the industries are few. "VVhen pressure of circumstanees shall demand the establishment of a system of industrial educatiou in this country, it is better that its conduct should be undertaken by associations of manufacturera in the branches in which it is proposed to give ïiisiauuidoii, as nas ueeii uone 111 England, rather than by government. State governments might, however, establisli a course of elementary instruction in reform schools, orplian asylums and the various penal institutions for the young, with good effect.

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