INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION AND NATURE-STUDY 



Many friends of the nature-study movement have for many 

 years behaved that somehow nature-study must be brought into 

 closer contact with every-day Hfe. This idea has led naturally 

 to the suggestion that there must be some fundamental 

 relation between nature-study and nlustr'al education (using 

 the term "industrial" in the broad sense). In an attempt 

 to bring together materials which will show and suggest the 

 possible bearing of nature-study on industrial education. Profes- 

 sor Caldwell, of the University of Chicago, has edited the papers 

 which follow. To the reader it will be evident that the time is 

 not yet ripe for any complete scheme of nature-study on an 

 industrial basis. In fact, some w411 ask whether nature-study 

 may not easily be made too industrial, especially w^hen the more 

 limited outlook of vocational ends prevail. However, the 

 papers which will follow will set many nature-study teachers 

 thinking, and the editor of The Review hopes that there may be 

 free expression of opinion and experience. M. A. B. 



THE POINT OF VIEW IN INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION 



By OTIS W. CALDWELL 

 The University lof Chicago 



The extremely active interest in industrial education, and the 

 advocacy of special courses and schools for furthering its needs 

 have brought about diverse opinions relative to the best lines to 

 follow. Some persons have argued for apprentice schools, 

 such as now exist in connection with many large manufacturing 

 organizations, some believe in trade schools in which young 

 people are prepared to work in any one of a considerable number 

 of trades, while a number of those interested (this last group 

 including most of the interested school people) believe that our 

 general educational system should include the basis of industrial 

 education, and that this basis should be had before young 

 people may go into apprentice or trade schools. This latter 

 group of people think of industrial education as an education 

 Icjoking toward general knowledge of and interest in industrial 



