The San Francisco call., 1903-09-11
GERMAN TRAINING SCHOOLS.


r Eibenstock, contributes to the current number
IL OF Consular Reports review OF the growth and
1,resert extent OF industrial education and training
in Germany which goes far to explain the success
the Germans have obtained in recent years in all
lines OF industry and commerce. The Government
OF the empire and that OF the different states
doing much to promote the technical excellence OF
the German workman and to make him as fit for the
industrial struggle the German soldier is for
Taking Saxony as a typical state Of the empire,
Mr. Harris says it has z87 industrial schools and
the total population is but 42o22I6 there is there
fore one industrial school for every I464I people
The schools are OF various grades and kinds. There
are y known as advanced industrial schools" $50
special industrial schools" 81 industrial schools for
drawing and painting, 2I industrial schools for
women girls and children, a industrial primary
continuation schools" and Is other industrial
schools connected with many public schools OF
the kingdom The story Of the progress OF that kind
Of training in Saxony told by the simple statement
that while there are now all these varied schools in
operation there late as 1882 only twenty-five
of them in the whole country.
Other German states are abreast of Saxony in the
march of industrial training. Thus in speaking of
some of them the report OF Mr.. Harris says: The
Government OF Wurttemberg has done much to in
troduce and support new industries II is the duty
OF the Royal Bureau for Commerce to keep in close
touch with all industrial schools in Wurttemberg."
Industrial education in Baden is far ad-
vanoed. There is a school in almost every city and
village between Heidelberg and the Lake of Con
stance. Fully 10000 apprentices learning how to
make clocks, cotton, wooen and silk goods" +
"Hessen can boast Of the fact that there is not
single village matter how small that has not an
industrial school OF some kind" & x Bavaria
is also well supplied with industrial schools"
The Prussan state railways have also established
industrial schools"
Thus the report goes on outlining the extent to
which the Governments OF the various parts of the
empire provide for the instruction Of the people in
useful and industries. The progress thus made
has attracted the attention Of the British who see in
the schools an explanation OF Germanys sudden rise
competitor OF British workmen, not only in the
general markets OF the world but in the markets of
Great Britain herself
A correspondent Of the London Mail in reviewing
German progress says The marvellous expansion
Of German trsde-one OF the notable achievements Of
the nineteenth century-is often referred to as at
tbutabe wholly to the fostering effects of bounties
but in real truth many factors have combined to pro-
duce the remarkable result There can be
but little doubt that the growth of many immense
industries IS traceable the system Of education that
has directed all the available powers OF scientific
knowledge and research upon industrial problems"
The writer goes on to add: in Germany the uni
versity has in been displaced from its DO
stcn crown OF the educational ediice; or rather
the classical foundations share their supremacy
With institutions Of more modern growth. The
universities still maintain their old high rank as
training schools in the hunantes but it IS in the
technical high schools that keen business men with
sound scientific knowledge are to-day receiving their
training The technical high schools are
essentially modern institutions They date back no
further than the nineteenth century. and their efec-
tyeness is matter OF the last generation Established
as trade schools for the study of special subjects thev
have wdened their operation until they stand TO-DAY
for the application Of scie4c knowledge in all di-
rectons to the special requirements of commercial
industry"
Such being the progress of Germany in industrial
training, II Is not strange that Sir Norman Loclcyer
has decmedSit advisable TO address the British AS
socation on Brain Power in History and pointed
the moral that Britain must increase her industrial
brain power fall out of the race with her highly
trained rivals.