Technical Education An Economic Necessity

Author : Robert Henry Thurston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528045643
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Technical Education in Economics, Politics, Statecraft and Morals written by Robert Henry Thurston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Evolution of Technical Education in Economics, Politics, Statecraft and Morals: The Work of the Franklin Institute During Seventy-Five Years Today, the acuteness of the political leader and the wisdom of the statesman may be very accurately gauged by the attention which he gives to the education of the people and especially to a systematic development of that technical education which has so long, but so slowly, been in process of evolution as a complement of the gymnastic, purely literary curriculum of older times. The moral and intellectual magnitude of the educator may be measured by the extent to which he has come to appreciate and to promote these evolutionary movements. The statesmen of Germany, of France, the educators of our own country, particularly, illustrate this fact. Glancing over the com pilation of testimony favorable to the inauguration, in the earliest days of our republic, of a national university, as representative of a national and public scheme of education of the people, as printed by the national committee, one sees at a glance that the signatures are those of the greatest statesmen of their time; the grander his statecraft, the nobler his plans for educational development and the largerthe measure of the man in all ways. This has been true from the days of Zenophon and of Herodotus to those of Washington and of Jefferson, and of the founders of Ger man technical education, of our Land Grant Colleges and of that Cornellian system which would unite in one great institution systems of education of all men in all studies; such as would prepare the scholar, equally well and with absolutely equal honor, for the rostrum, for the pulpit and for the professor's chair, the lawyer for his courts, the physician for his hospital and for ministration at the sick-bed, the engineer for construction of railroads, canals, bridges and steam-engines and steam-boats, the farmer for all forms of agriculture and the artisan for the workshop, factory and mill. Of these classes, a thousand require scientific instruction where one depends upon litera ture for his support; hundreds demand a knowledge of the scientific basis of the arts where one needs tuition in lan guage; scores seek professions having a scientific founda tion where one can utilize, in later life and for his own personal advantage, the liberal education of the so called learned professions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.