20 Industrial Training and Technical Eancation. 



washing and plain needlework are taught in all girls' homes. 

 In many Institutions steam power is used, and the inmates are 

 in such cases taught the care and management of engines and 

 machinery. Considering the antecedents of so many of the 

 inmates it is evident that a proportion will have been unable 

 to acquire any proficiency in trades when discharged, but all 

 will have acquired habits of work and industry and that power 

 of restraint and self discipline which industrial training involves. 

 On the other hand some will develope far above the average, 

 and qualify themselves for higher pursuits. I remember a 

 young man employed by the late Sir Bernard Burke, engaged 

 in doing heraldic work in his office, whom he had taken from 

 an Industrial school, and I suppose there are few of these Insti- 

 tutions that cannot adduce similar instances. I mention this 

 as an answer to those who despise industrial work as cramping 

 to the soaring genius of the modern school boy, whose chief 

 desire is to wear a black coat and keep his hands clean. 



I alluded just now to those who are unable to acquire pro- 

 ficiency in any trade. The care of these and their development 

 point to the important bearing of sanitation and physical train- 

 ing on industrial training, as the strength both of mind and body 

 to work must be obtained and preserved. Cleanliness comes 

 first ; clean bodies, clean clothes, clean hair and clean food ; next, 

 sufficient drill has been introduced generally as necessary to 

 the orderly work of an institution, carrying with it, insensibly 

 amongst the pupils, habits of smartness, self-respect and 

 obedience. This may also be seen in the various Boys' 

 Brigades. It is estimated that of the children who enter these 

 Institutions free from disease the death rate is about 3 per 1000, 

 which is about one-fourth that of those outside. Children's 

 diseases are almost banished — and about 90 per cent, are got 

 into good productive service and keep it. 



The jealousy with which our Industrial Schools and Reform- 

 atories are regarded by tradesmen outside is very much to be 

 regretted, as it restrains managers of these Institutions from 

 doing their best to turn out lads efficient in remunerative 

 trades, and confines them to teaching industries which can 



