The Place of Industrial And Technical Training in Popular Education
The Place of Industrial And Technical Training in Popular Education
Henry Smith Pritchett
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Granting much that has been claimed for manual training, it seems nevertheless true that, in this country at least, it has done almost nothing to bridge over the difficulties which lie between the untrained apprentice and the skilled artisan. This has been due in some measure, it seems to me, to the great fear which its advocates have had lest it minister to utilitarian ends, and to their intense desire to have it, first of all, rank in dignity with older studies. Their attitude reminds one, in... some measure, of the toast offered by a Senior Wrangler, when he said, " Here's to Digitized by Google i8 pure mathematics, and may it never be of any use to anybody ! " But the ambitious young man or woman in Boston who is earning a living, and who is willing to struggle for the increased power and pleasure which come from technical knowledge of one's own calling, has not exhausted his opportunities in the night schools maintained by the city and by private thoughtfulness. There has grown up during the last ten years another agency which is within reach of the man who has to make a living, if he can afford it ; and this is found in correspondence instruction, given by correspondence schools.
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