Bread-And-Butter Studies and Their Relation to the Higher Education of Workmen; An Address to Technical Students, Given at the Annual Meeting of the Technical Schools, Wolverhampton, October 9, 1906 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1906 Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The bulk of the information or material on which this bulletin is based is the result of correspondence with parties throughout the country and of personal investigation of concerns employing the various types of apprenticeship systems. This original material has been supplemented in some degree by the meager information already to be found in publications and addresses. In this work I wish to acknowledge the assistance I have received from Mr. Arthur D. Dean, a gentleman fully acquainted with all the elements of industrial education. He has made many personal investigations for this publication.. Carroll D. Wright. Clark College, Worcester, Mass., July 11, 1908. I I THE APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM IN ITS RELATION TO INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. A COMBINATION OF APPRENTICESHIP AND ACADEMIC EDUCATION 'NEEDED. There are three well-known methods of securing greater skill in our industries. First, the apprenticeship system; second, trade schools; third, industrial schools. The first means the indenturing of apprentices in any given trade for the purpose of giving instruction to young men in the art and mystery of the trade involved. This system, which is very old, reaching back to ancient times, was developed very largely in mediaeval times in connection with the old guilds, and under various modifications extends to the present. Nearly all writers and speakers on industrial education state broadly and definitely that the system is dead. In one sense this is true. Yet the old type of apprenticeship is not quite dead, because it exists very largely in this and in other countries, but it is decadent, while what may be called the modern system, involving very broad lines of general instruction, has largely taken its place, and is being developed in such a wa...