26 Industrial Traming and Technical Education. 



subject, and this I shall do as nearly as possible in the words of 

 the report. 



Perhaps two of the most interesting are that the education 

 and training of the young is so efficient as to enable them to 

 enter these classes of technical instruction at the age of 14 (it 

 being remembered that in Germany all children are taught an 

 industry as a general rule), and the tendency for the schools to 

 develope into commercial undertakings in which investigation 

 of the best methods and instruction go hand in hand with 

 production. The schools of Crefeld, Aix la Chapelle and 

 Berlin are especially noteworthy and have given Germany her 

 pre-eminence in the textile and woollen articles produced by 

 them. It is said that from the last of these institutions, of 

 mantles alone, £ i ,000,000 worth are annually exported to this 

 country. At Darmstadt, a most important school exists for 

 instruction in Electro-Chemistry and Electrical Engineering ; 

 and amongst the 1,000 day students are to be found a large 

 number from various European countries. The comparatively 

 advanced age of the students in German Technical Schools is 

 especially remarkable, and without doubt the general industry 

 of the country gains by the extended time given to scientific 

 technical training in the supply of a large number of adequately 

 educated men. Nothing is more striking than the prevision of 

 those responsible for the education of the Germans and Swiss 

 people in providing the means for the best possible training in 

 chemical science and its industrial applications. The success of 

 their policy may be realised from the fact that the great colour 

 manufacturing works on the Rhine alone employ 5,000 men 

 and upwards of 100 scientifically trained chemists. These 

 works are but one of several on a similarly large scale. The 

 value of the world's markets in colouring matters and 

 pharmaceutical products is estimated at ten millions sterling, 

 and of this, 75 per cent, is in the hands of Germany. In 

 most of the towns fine Industrial Art Museums have been 

 established with the purpose of cultivating a knowledge of 

 what has been accomplished, in the production of examples of 

 colour, design, and workmanship. Every technical school has 



