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Title: The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany

Author: Arthur Henry Chamberlain

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THE CONDITION AND TENDENCIES

OF

Technical Education in Germany

BY

ARTHUR HENRY CHAMBERLAIN

Professor of Education and Principal of the Normal School
of Manual Training, Art, and Domestic Economy,
Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, California:
Author of "Educative Hand-Work Manuals"
and "A Bibliography of Manual Arts"

[Illustration]

SYRACUSE, N. Y.
C. W. BARDEEN, PUBLISHER
1908

Copyright, 1908, by C. W. BARDEEN

INTRODUCTION

The question of the technical phases of education is, with any nation, a
vital one. Perhaps this is true of Germany as it is of no other European
country. This may be mainly due to one of several causes. First, as to
the length of time technical education has had a place in the German
schools. In some form or another, and in a greater or lesser degree,
such instruction has been in vogue for many years, and has in no small
measure become part and parcel of the educational fabric of the nation.
Again, throughout the various German States, the work is rather widely
differentiated, this owing in part to the fact that the varying lines of
industry in adjacent localities even, give color and bent to the
technical education of any particular