[iii]THE CONDITION AND TENDENCIES
OF
Technical Education in Germany

BY

ARTHUR HENRY CHAMBERLAIN

Professor of Education and Principal of the Normal School
of Manual Training, Art, and Domestic Economy,
Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, California:
Author of “Educative Hand-Work Manuals”
and “A Bibliography of Manual Arts”

SYRACUSE, N. Y.
C. W. BARDEEN, PUBLISHER
1908

Copyright, 1908, by C. W. Bardeen

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INTRODUCTION

The question of the technical phases ofeducation is, with any nation, a vital one.Perhaps this is true of Germany as it is ofno other European country. This may bemainly due to one of several causes. First,as to the length of time technical educationhas had a place in the German schools. Insome form or another, and in a greater orlesser degree, such instruction has been invogue for many years, and has in no smallmeasure become part and parcel of theeducational fabric of the nation. Again,throughout the various German States, thework is rather widely differentiated, thisowing in part to the fact that the varyinglines of industry in adjacent localities even,give color and bent to the technical educationof any particular locality. An extensivefield is thus comprehended under theterm “technical education”. Then, too,[vi]Germany as a nation must needs better hercondition in order that she may prove self-sustaining.The country is not a wealthyone, and if in trade, in manufacture, and incommerce, she is to compete, and that successfully,with the world powers, strengthmust be gained along such lines as thoseopening through technical education.

The hope is entertained that the followingpages may prove of value, not alone to thestudent of technical education as it exists inGermany, but particularly to those who areendeavoring to institute and develop industrialand technical training in this country.The possibility along these lines is exceedinglygreat and the interest and attention ofthinking people is focused here. They lookto this form of education as a partial solutionof some of the most obstinate problemsnow confronting us.

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