New York State Branch of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education

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Excerpt from New York State Branch of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education: The Factory School of Rochester I shall divide my remarks into three parts, first giving a brief account of the preliminary steps that led up to the establishment of the Factory School, second, some account of the school itself, and then I shall speak of the wider and more significant features of the establishment of public industrial schools. The first step toward the creation of the Factory School in Rochester concerned the pupils themselves and the parents of the children who were likely to enter industrial life. We took up the question first with these interested persons. We canvassed the schools and found that there were five hundred and twenty boys in the public schools (fourteen years of age or over) who might be said to be eligible to enter the proposed school. We found that the parents were willing and in some cases were anxious that their boys should enter such a public school. We canvassed a considerable number of manufacturers and found that they, too, looked upon the project with favor. They thought that it would make a permanent contribution of value to the industrial life of the city, and they said that they would, therefore, welcome the graduates of such a school in their factories. They believed that such graduates would have an increased earning power because of the training that we proposed to give. Their attitude was very cordial and encouraging. Next we canvassed the labor unions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.