Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-07-14

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Justice !fuiler rendered the opinion
sustaining the fertilizer inspection
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INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION 4 IN EUROPE.
Industrial education is not q fail
uro in Europe. Germany and Swift
zerland led in tho establishment of
industrial schools and tho great poly
tcchnic institutions of Zurich,
Munich, Vienna, Stuttgart, Dresden
and Berlin are the prido of Europe
and tho ideals Of America. Tho
little Kingdom of Saxony has III
technical schools. Prussia has 260
such schools. Tho German people
arc being educated scientifically.
Conservative England woke up in
1882 to find that Germany was COM
peting with success for tho trade of
the world. A royal commission was
appointed by Parliament to inquire
into tho cause. After an exhaust
i've investigation tho commissions re-
ported that Germany's growing
supremacy was owing to nor splendid
system of industrial schools. Since
that time England has spent stupcn-
dous sums of money to train her
citizens for tho keen competition of
life. No backward steps are being
taken. Manchester is now adding
half Il million dollars to her textile
school. In 1892 there were no fcwcr
than 200 science schools in London.
SOME LEADING QUESTIONS.
Let us pause to ask the que,,tion,
Why should industrial education be
a failurc2 Has it failed to train
expert hands2 las it failed to
develop intellectp Has it failed to
promote morality? Let the lives of
the twenty thousand industrial stu
dents in the United States answer.
las the industrial system failed to
meet long-fclt want? Let the
amazing popularity and the extraor-
dinary growth of the industrial col
lcgcs answer. Is there any inherent
defect i'll the system? IF SO, point it
out. Does the curriculum need re-
vision? Is it helpful to the State
and to the student to master such
subjects as horticulture, entomology,
stock breeding, botany, dairying,
veterinary science, applied mechan-
les, electrical engineering, drawing
and designing, wood work, chemis-
try, geology, forge and foundory
work, English, Gin some industrial
schools Latin and Grcek,) mathe-
MATES, history and military science ?.
The aforementioned subjects are
the ones taught in nine tcnths of
the industrial schools Of America.
Is such course of study impractical
bic, visionary, useless?
WAS TT PRATT, RAvENEL OF, HOLMES.
| hold that South Carolina needs
training along these lines to develop
her bOundlcSS resources. Permit me
to illustrate In Capcr's Life of
Nlcmmingcr we arc told that for
many years it was known that i'm
mcnsc beds Of calcarcous nodules,
containing numerous fossil bones,
existed in the vicinity of Charleston.
Their commercial value was not ap-
prcciatcd till DR.. Pratt, a chemist
from Georgia, in 1867, discovered
the large percentage of available
phosphate of lime, which they con-
taincd. From the small initial COM
pany, composed of DR.. Pratt, w. G.
Bee, Robert Adgcr and G.. G. Mem
mingcr, has grown the great phos-
phatc industry of the present. 1t
was an application of scientific
knowledge that acquainted the pub
lie with the value Of the phosphate
rocks
Industrial education means "sci-
cncc, with Practice" The material
development Of Carolina depends
upon industrial education. Like the
character in browning, South Caro-
lima may say:
'This earnest Of the end shall ncvor fade!
Are there not, FcstuS, arc thcro not, dear
Michael,
Two points i'm the adventure of the diver,
Onc-whcn bcggar, he prepares to
plunge;
Onc--whcn a prince, he rises with his
pearl?
Fcstus, plunge!
NO FIGHT WITH CLASSICAL EDUCA-
Industrial education has no attack
to make upon classical education.
Classical education has it's legiti-
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