In plainer
words, our great firms will not make money, wages will fall, and
wage-earners will be out of work[1].
The possibility of the extension of the educational system to meet the
needs of technical training need not cause disquiet among those whose
desire is for fulness of citizenship, if they are prepared to insist
that teachers shall be trained on broad and comprehensive lines and
that every vocational course shall include instruction in direct
citizenship. The argument is ready to hand and simple. If all men and
women must strive to work wisely and well, so also should they learn
how to participate in the government, local and national, which their
work supports. Moreover the right study of a trade or profession
induces a perception of the inter-relationship of all human activity.
On the other hand it is important that vocational work, at least so
far as it is carried out by manual training, should be introduced into
schemes of liberal education. In this connection it is worth recalling
that in a recent report, the Consultative Committee of the Board of
Education expressed with complete conviction the opinion that manual
training was indispensable in places of secondary education:
We consider that our secondary education has been too exclusively
concerned with the cultivation of the mind by means of books and
the instruction of the teacher. To this essential aim there must be
added as a condition of balance and completeness that of fostering
those qualities of mind and that skill of hand which are evoked by
systematic work.
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