Science in Technical and Preparatory Schools ¹

Abstract

EDUCATION is probably more discussed at the present time than ever it was before. It has become a subject for the newspapers, and to some extent for the political platform. It would seem there is now really a hope that the ordinary man of affairs will soon appreciate its importance. The advocates of education in science and technology have for years appreciated the reality and understood the reason of successful foreign competition, and now the lesson is being impressively driven home to every manufacturer by the tale of diminishing exports. Facts such as these give the recent report, made for the Department of Special Inquiries of the Board of Education by Mr. James Baker, on technical and commercial education in East Prussia, Poland, Galicia, Silesia and Bohemia, a very high value. Written as it is from the point of view of a skilled observer generally interested in the development of British industry and commerce, the report will receive more careful attention from the practical men engaged in manufacture than would the opinion of a mere student of pedagogics.