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new facilities should await the demand for them and be supfdted 
gradually and tentatively, for it would be folly tiQ^rush^ _ 
new ancl costly projects without a certainty of their result 0 
adequate benefit.” 
Hitherto when the child is drafted from the infant class to 
that for older children the developement of manual traimn 
discontinued. Here is room for improvement. What is wanted 
is not instruction in any particular handicraft but wrtruotaoa 
examples for imteto m «««-» 
erenceot Education. But all the authorities are 
* e Sl° f J e e t“ t that Technical Education of a practical 
and useful kind cannot be given unless the learner has at Ins 
command the elements of general education. 
Huxley says “ In my judgment the preparatory education 
of ought .o tav. nM St”.' 
arily understood by technica a education which precedes 
only real school for a handicraft The^duc^ ^ ^ 
that of the workshop s p ..ation of the moral faculties 
strengthening of the body, _ ... an d especially to the 
and the cultivation of the > mtell ,w of .tl be laws of 
imbuing the mind with a broa 0 f which the handicrafts- 
that natural world with the ComFOi^t * the period of life at 
man will have to deal. And ^ en ter Vto actual practice of 
which the handicraftsman tas should devote the 
his craft the more important it _ ‘ tQ lh ings of the mind 
precious hours of prelitnmaiy e bearing on* his branch of 
which have no direct and tmm - ■ Q f all realities.” The 
industry though .they lie at 'the fo “ d hnica i a „d agricultural 
United States have highly efieaiv ^ fey competent 
schools the excellence of wmen ; lhe American reports 
authorities, English and ‘ j or admission into schools o 
it appears that as a rule cani.date he well . gr0 unded in 
Mining, Engineering and A S rlc ^ ten dency to increase the 
Mathematics. There is a nO^ceaUeten^ ^ h d 
requirements in English »nc • Q an didates must have g on 
German is thought de ^ academical course before they ca. 
through the regular school or acaaei 
enter the industrial schoo s. fae Workingmans’ 
A, . M. Of •- l..r X 01 r»5y 
School in New York may 1 , the branches , 
from the Free Kindergarten where Geography, 
pursued include Reading, 
