meekly Sbetnawa American
VOL. 12
Industrial Education
President Harvey in opening the
National Educational Association at
Denver on Monday of this week deliver
ed the following Annual Address:
"Within recent years there has sprung
up a wide-spread demand for industrial
education," said the speaker. ''It comes
from all parts of the United States and
from all classes of people; the manufac
turer, the professional man, the man en
gaged in commercial enterprises, the
fanner, the educator. Industrial educa
tion has probably a different meaning
for each of these types of individuals
and yet all agree upon one thing, and
that is that it is something not found in
any adequate form in our present edu
cational system.
"To the. farmer industrial education
means education that will fit th boy to
become a more effective farmer and that
will present inducements to him to re
main upon the farm; to the manufac
turer it means training that will give
him skilled workmen and more efficient
foremen and superintendents; and to
some of them it means the kind of sci
entific training which fits one for the re
search work for th -'discovery of new or
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improved industrial processes. To the
professional man it means a rather in
definite broadening of educational op
portunities; to the student it may mean
any one or all of these, and very much
more.
"Except very limited opportunities
for instruction leading to skill in in
dustrial processes, practically ' nothing
has been done in this country for the
development of industrial education out
side the college or university. Material
for instructional purpose in the entire
field must be organized and put into
teachable form and made available with
in the range or pupil's capacity for the
thousands who now leave school at an
early age with no training whatever
directly fitting them for the activities of
life in the industrial world where most
of them will find their work.
"In the larger cities trade schools and
continuation schools of various type's
must be organized. The scope and char
acter of their work will be varied and
must be adapted to local conditions. In
rural communities secondary schools in
which the study of agriculture and relat
ed lines of work is the dominant purpose
must be organized. But when these
JULY 9, 1909.