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Industries so recruited can not long compete with similar industries 

 recruited from the ranks of technically trained persons. 



The commission concludes that the elements of industrial training, 

 agriculture, domestic and mechanical sciences should be taught in the 

 public schools, and it presents a strong argument in support of this 

 conclusion. " The State needs a wider diffusion of industrial intel- 

 ligence as a foundation for the highest technical success, and this 

 can only be acquired in connection with the general system of educa- 

 tion into which it should enter as an integral part from the beginning. 

 The latest philosophy of education reinforces the demands of pro- 

 ductive industry by showing that that which fits a child best for his 

 place in the world as a producer tends to his own highest develop- 

 ment physically, intellectually, and morally." 



Two lines are suggested in which industrial education may be 

 developed — through the existing public-school system and through 

 independent industrial schools. It is recommended that cities and 

 towns so modify the work in the elementary schools as to include 

 instruction and practice in the elements of productive industry, as 

 applied to agriculture and the mechanic and domestic arts, and 

 " that this instruction be of such a character as to secure from it the 

 highest cultural as well as the highest industrial value." It is also 

 urged that the work in the high schools be so modified " that the 

 instruction in mathematics, the sciences, and drawing shall show the 

 application and use of these subjects in industrial life, with special 

 reference to local industries: . . . that is, algebra and geometry 

 should be so taught in the public schools as to show their relations 

 to construction, botany to horticulture and agriculture, chemistry to 

 agriculture, manufactures, and domestic science, and drawing to 

 every form of industry/* 



In addition to these modifications the commission recommends that 

 towns and cities provide new elective industrial courses in high 

 schools, for instruction in the principles of agriculture and the 

 domestic and mechanic arts, with both day and evening courses, so 

 as to accommodate persons already employed in trades; and further- 

 more, that part-time day courses be provided for children between 

 the ages of 14 and 18 years who are employed during the remainder 

 of the day, so that instruction in the principles and the practice of 

 the arts may go on together. 



The above relates entirely to the existing public school system, 

 whose integrity the scheme proposes to preserve. For the more tech- 

 nical and advanced work the commission believes that distinctive 

 industrial schools, separated entirely from the public school system, 

 should be maintained. This departure is held to be entirely in 

 accord with the policy to which the State is already fully committed 



