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Page 8 - University is not. It is not a place of professional education. Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. Their object is not to make skilful lawyers, or physicians, or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings.
Page 13 - I would say that an educated man invariably acquires a knowledge of his work with greater facility, and executes it with less cost of supervision, than an uneducated man. 3. The mere rudiments I do not rank very high. If a man can barely read and write he has not attained to much. To read and write fluently is a great advantage in conducting the ordinary affairs of life. Evidence has been given before the British Parliament from my own district showing that some grave mistakes in chemical processes,...
Page 15 - Perhaps the best illustration of this would be the contrast between a clerk earning £80 a year, who is a gentleman in education, tastes, and surroundings, and an ignorant laborer earning the same sum. In England intelligent workmen are generally the men who are distinguished for economy and thrift. They take the lead in all useful associations ; they are the managers of the mechanics' institutions, the teachers in the Sunday schools, and the founders of cooperative societies.
Page 158 - No argument of this kind is needed at the present day. In nearly all the great industrial centres - in the Metropolis, in Glasgow, in Manchester, Liverpool, Oldham, Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Keighley, Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, the Potteries, and elsewhere more or less flourishing schools of science and art of various grades, together with numerous art and science classes exist, and their influence may be traced in the productions of the localities in which they are placed.
Page 24 - From the concrete to the abstract ; from the known to the unknown ; from the simple to the compound,' and we shall have no trouble in teaching Primary Arithmetic, nor anything else.
Page 159 - Institute may be studied in this connection. Moreover, as evidencing the desire of the artisans themselves to obtain facilities for instruction both in science and art, we must not omit to mention the classes established and maintained by some of the leading cooperative societies. The Equitable Pioneers' Society of Rochdale has led the way in this, as in so many other social movements. It is much to be wished that the various trades' unions would also consider whether it is not incumbent on them...
Page 103 - Cleveland and Philadelphia, so little has been done by the owners of large establishments, or by the town or State authorities, in the direction of technical schools or evening science schools. These industries represent a large proportion of the working population in those large cities, and yet the owners of works have to rely upon the scientific knowledge obtained through many institutions remote from these districts.
Page 96 - First, that while labor with hand tools and machines should be wisely blended, yet since machinery has a constantly increasing share in the conversion of material into useful forms, the educated mechanic should know how to design, construct, and assemble the parts of a machine as well as how to make its product; and, second, that excellence in construction is to be sought as a most valuable factor in instruction. The power of the engineer...
Page 19 - Skilled labor must be had from some source, and we cannot afford to import it in bulk, if for no other reason than its expensiveness. HOW TO MAKE OUR LABORERS THE EQUALS OF FOREIGN WORKMEN.
Page 12 - States elementary .nd nigh schoois. scjence js now taught in numerous colleges, academies and high schools. While this instruction, in point of cost and preliminary educational qualifications, is generally within the reach of the masses, the subjects taught and, as a rule, the manner of teaching them, have but little practical bearing on industrial pursuits. However, in the last few years considerable progress has been made in introducing a substantial help to industrial education — that of manual...