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admiration for the unselfish devotion to a noble cause dis- 

 played by the members of the many Soldiers' Industrial 

 Committees. 



One result of the work of these committees, apart alto- 

 gether from the vocational training, is that those who 

 have been, or still are, members of these committees, have 

 been brought very closely into touch with technical educa- 

 tion. The benefit arising out of this consists not only in 

 what the members have learned for themselves, but as 

 representatives of their different associations or unions 

 they have had to report to their constituents about what 

 was being done. In this way, through them, thousands of 

 people have had vividly brought before them the facts in 

 regard to this very interesting experiment in an important 

 branch of education. Thus public attention has been 

 focussed on technical education in a way that it never 

 would have been had there been no Vocational Training 

 Scheme nor any Soldiers' Industrial Committees. 



Experience of the working of the Soldiers' Industrial 

 Committees in relationship with the Vocational Training 

 Scheme goes to show that advisory committees of this kind 

 would be of the greatest value in connection with any 

 system of education. At any rate, with those systems 

 which aim at meeting the need of any special branch of 

 human activity in civil life. It is admitted that the aim 

 of education may be said to be the improvement of the 

 standard in thought and action of all these activities, but 

 it has also to minister to them, and it cannot either minister 

 to or improve them without understanding them. An 

 understanding, especially in the technical professions and 

 callings, may not be reached if approached entirely from 

 the academic point of view. It does seem, therefore, that 

 those who control technical schools and all who have the 

 direction of those sections of universities which are devoted 



