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Search - Industrial Education In The United States - A Special Report 1883

Industrial Education In The United States - A Special Report 1883
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INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION UNITED STATES, A SPECIAL REPORT PREPARED BY THE U. S. BUREAU -. OF EDUCATION. - 1883 - l47TH CONGRESS, 2d Session. 1 SEBATE. Ex. Doc. No. 25. L E T T E R FROM TEE SECRETARY OF THE INTE-RIOR, In response to Senate resolzction of December 15, information relating to industrial education in the United tat. DECEXBER 27, 1882.-R... more »eferred to the Committee on Education and Labor and ordered to be printed. DEPARTMENTO F THE INTERIOR, IVaskington, December 27,1882. SIR I have this day received from the Commissioner of Education, and hare the honor to forward for t, he information of the Senate, the folloming reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 15th instant, cnlling for information in regarcl to inclustrial education. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. N. TELLER, Secretary. The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. DEPART N O T F THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Wasl ingtonD, . C., December 27, 1882. SIR I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the following resolution of the Senate of the United States, referred by you to me on December 19 Resolced, That the Secretary of the Interior is directed to furnish to the Senate tbo latest and fullest informationin the possession of the Bureau of Edrlcation in relation to technical or industrial edncation in the schools and colleges e clomeind nhole or in part bv the Government of the United States, and also in other schools in the country reporting instruction in industry for either men or women. Education, in its relation to industry, is a subject of earnest consideration in the public mind. Older countries, trugglingw ith some of the severer problems of civiliz t iohna, ve found great aicl in their solution by modifying the instruction - given the children in their schools. Educated labor is found to be a prominent factor in national prosperity. Recently industrial education in some form has been the subject of special inquiry in various foreign countries. Several of our owl1 States, S. EX. 25-1 2 INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. ancl o number of associations and institutions, have been making active eflorts to gain further information upon the subject. This office is compelled to make technical instructioli a subject in regard to which it cor startlyco llects and co nmlluicatesf acts and I have the honor to submit the following reply to the resolution of the Senate, drawn from material already gathered iu the office in response to yrerious demands. I hare the honor to be, very respectfullg, your ol edienst ervant, JOHN EATON, Comwzissio zer. The Hon. SECRETAR O Y P THE INTERIOR. R E P O R T . It will be seen that the information called for by the Senate resolution is concerned with a wide educational field. Colleges of agriculture and mechanics, and institutions affording instruction similar to that of agricultural colleges, as well as those which give opportunities to women for industrial education, come within the sphere of inquiry. In other words, the educational training ofthe farmer, the mechanic, and the housekeeper, so far as it i attempted by organized effort, is thc subject on which infor nationis required to be gix-en. In the West provision is usually made for the education of these three classes i11 the same schools for, in the newer Stateslit is the generally accepted belief that those who are to be coworkers in actual lift, may well be associated in the preparation for it that mau and woman are entitled to equal and similar, if not ideutical, educatioual privileges. In the more conservative regions of the East and South the sexes are not so frequently educated togetl er...

ISBN-13: 9781408623435
ISBN-10: 1408623439
Publication Date: 10/29/2007
Pages: 340
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Publisher: Qureshi Press
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