The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany, by Arthur Henry Chamberlain This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany Author: Arthur Henry Chamberlain Release Date: September 12, 2008 [EBook #26595] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY *** Produced by Irma Spehar, Markus Brenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [iii]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” SYRACUSE, N. Y. C. W. BARDEEN, PUBLISHER 1908 Copyright, 1908, by C. W. Bardeen [v]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.