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education nothing but a means of somewhat 

 improving the flesh-machine of the factory 

 and of transferring a few workers into the upper 

 class of trained engineers. 



Such an ideal may satisfy them, but it cannot 

 satisfy those who keep in view the combined 

 interests of science and industry, and consider 

 both as a means for raising humanity to a higher 

 level. We maintain that in the interests of 

 both science and industry, as well as of society 

 as a whole, every human being, without dis- 

 tinction of birth, ought to receive such an 

 education as would enable him, or her, to 

 combine a thorough knowledge of science 

 with a thorough knowledge of handicraft. 

 We fully recognise the necessity of specialisa- 

 tion of knowledge, but we maintain that 

 specialisation must follow general education, 

 and that general education must be given in 

 science and handicraft alike. To the division of 

 society into brain workers and manual workers 

 we oppose the combination of both kinds of 

 activities ; and instead of " technical educa- 

 tion," which means the maintenance of the 

 present division between brain work and 

 manual work, we advocate the education 

 integrate, or complete education, which means 

 the disappearance of that pernicious distinc- 

 tion. 



