Education for Industry*

Abstract

THE evolution of industry involves a continual change in the character of the knowledge that must be applied by those engaged in it, if they are to achieve a continually increasing efficiency of production. How important this question of efficiency is to the whole community of an industrial nation may not always be appreciated. The material progress of civilization demands an increasing supply of manufactured products of all kinds. If they are manufactured at home, employment is increased and money is available for circulation. This affects eventually all the community and not merely those workers directly engaged in industry. It is therefore of vital importance that the transformation we speak of as industry shall be conducted with the utmost efficiency, and to achieve this the personnel engaged in it must be most effectively trained; which in its broadest sense means most effectively educated.