Technical Education

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Excerpt from Technical Education: Abroad and at Home This pamphlet is a reprint of a short series of letters contributed during the past winter to the Morning Herald. I have given them this more permanent form at the request of friends of University Consolidation, and of men who fuel our need of Technical Education. My facts I have drawn from a great variety of sources. I may mention: Rapport sur l'organisation de l'enseignement industriel en Allemagne et en Suisse, published in 1864, by the French Government, Russell's Systematic Technical Education, 1869, Matthew Arnold's Report to the British Government on the Schools of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, 1868, Preussens landwirthschaftliche Verwaltung, 1875-7, L'enseignement agricole en France, by H. Johanet, 1882, Technical Education in a Saxon Town, by Felkin, 1881, Agricultural Education, by Prof. W. Johnston, 1881, Liversidge's Report to the Government of New South Wales, on Museums and Scientific and Technical Instruction in Great Britain, and on the Continent of Europe, 1880, the Report of the Quebec Commissioner of Public Works and Agriculture, 1880, Report of tho United States Commissioner of Education, for 1879, Discussions on Technical Education, published by the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1870, Apprenticeship Schools in France, and other pamphlets, by Prof. S. P. Thompson, Bristol, The Future of Mechanics' Institutions, by Prof. W. E. Ayrton, London, Report to the Japanese Government on the Engineering College, Tokio, 1878, papers in the Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 1875-81, various Circulars of Information issued by the U. S. Bureau of Education, the Education Reports of the Provinces of Canada, and circulars, prospectuses, and calendars of Universities, Colleges, and Technical Schools. 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.