Report of the Commission on Industrial and Technical Education: Submitted in Accordance with Resolve Approved May 24, 1905. April, 1906 |
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Page 162 - FELKIN, HM— Technical Education in a Saxon Town. Published for the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education.
Page 1 - By this is meant mental power to see beyond the task which occupies the hands for the moment, to the operations which have preceded and to those which will follow it — power to take in the whole process, knowledge of materials, ideas of cost, ideas of organization, business sense, and a conscience whicli recognizes obligations.
Page 17 - ... classes of children between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years who may be employed during the remainder of the day, to the end that instruction in the principles and the practice of the arts may go on together...
Page 17 - It may initiate and superintend the establishment and maintenance of industrial schools for boys and girls in various centers of the Commonwealth, with the cooperation and consent of the municipality involved or the municipalities constituent of any district to be formed by the union of towns and cities, as hereinafter provided. The commission shall have all necessary powers in the conduct and maintenance of industrial schools, and money appropriated by the State and municipality for their maintenance...
Page 10 - The wide indifference to manual training as a school subject may be due to the narrow view which has prevailed among its chief advocates. It has been urged as a cultural subject mainly useful as a stimulus to other forms of intellectual effort, — a sort of mustard relish, an appetizer, — to be conducted without reference to any industrial end. It has been severed from real life as completely as have the other school activities. Thus it has come about that the overmastering influences of school...
Page 16 - ... be of such a character as to secure from it the highest cultural as well as the highest industrial value ; and that the work in the high schools be modified so that the instruction in mathematics, the sciences and drawing shall show the application and...
Page 17 - The said commission on its organization shall appoint a secretary to be its executive officer, who shall not be a member of the commission, and who shall receive such salary as shall be approved by the governor and council, and the commission may employ supervisors, experts in industrial and technical education, and such clerical and other service as may be found necessary. The necessary expenses of the commission, including clerk hire...
Page 18 - SECTION 4. Two or more cities or towns may unite as a district for the maintenance of the industrial schools provided for in the preceding section, but no such district shall be created without the approval of the commission on industrial education.
Page 18 - College are hereby authorized to establish a normal department for the purpose of giving instruction in the elements of agriculture to persons desiring to teach such elements in the public schools, as provided in sections three and four: provided, that the cost of such department shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars in any one year, and that at least fifteen candidates present themselves for such instruction.
Page 17 - Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The governor, by and with the consent of the council, shall appoint a commission of five persons, to be known as the Commission on Industrial Education, to serve for the term of three years, and to receive such compensation as the governor and council shall approve.