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The National Geographic Magazine 



The Technical High School at Charlottenburg, Germany 



legion of errors without detection until 

 the products of his experimentation are 

 placed upon the market, as experience 

 has frequently proved. 



Drawing is made a most important 

 branch of study. It lies at the basis of 

 a large majority of advanced studies and 

 is the A B C in the curriculum of many 

 a trade school. In day schools, evening 

 schools, and Sunday schools it is the 

 same thing — drawing ! drawing ! It is 

 an aid, rather than an injury, to the 

 memory. It trains the mind as well as 

 the eye. It is as great an aid to the 

 reasoning powers as is logic or mathe- 

 matics. 



Experience in Germany apparently 

 shows that, as a rule, those schools 



which are under private management 

 exact the highest tuition fees and ara 

 the most inefficient. 



Out of 5 19 students who attended the 

 commercial high school of Leipzig in 

 1902-1903 213 were foreigners (no of 

 these Russians) . Another striking illus- 

 tration is found in the tanning school of 

 Freiberg, Saxony, where 42 out of 76 

 students enrolled in 1 902-1 903 were for- 

 eigners. In 1903 the ten technical high 

 schools had an enrollment of 2,242 for- 

 eigners out of a total attendance of 

 14,426. 



These hundreds of foreigners return 

 to their various countries and there give 

 no mean aid in the development of in- 

 dustries which are in direct competition 



