Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-01

intendents.
1t Is by a combination OF the financial
resources of the city, the trade guilds
and the central government that the
great expense of these schools is met.
But their Importance is fully realized.
Attendance upon these schools Is com
pulsory for apprentices.
In Germany, as in the other European
countries, the state takes the liveliest
interest in the encouragement of local
industries. In one of the Munich technical
schools, whose building cost half mil
lion marks, the annual expense of main
tensuSs Is $4,000 marks, of which the
state contributes one-half and the city
the other half. In another of the Murich
schools, there are some 1900 pupils, with
a teaching staff of 100.
Berlin is, with it's great school OF arts
and its Industrial art museums, without
question the great center of industrial
art in Germany
Two Forces
IT has been distinctly recognized in
Germany that there must be proper
blending of purely educational and purely
Industrial forces in order to produce the
desired effects in industrial education;
nevertheless, in this combination 1t has
been the Industrial force which has had
the purely educational force has been
active chiefly in an advisory capacity
Thus we find that Germany is giving
the same careful consideration to its ir-
dustrial schools that 1t has given to its
common schools, which have brought
about such splendid results.
In Belgium Industrial edumatnonapt,r
In Belgium Industrial education is taken
most seriously, but those who have 1t in
fatf wi
experience due to established traditions.
School keeps six days In the week, and
only fifteen days in the year are granted
for holidays.
The Belgium school for training pupils
in the machinists trade
offers a course of three years In the
first year all pupils take the same general
course, but after that each specializes
in some branch of machinist's work. The
expenses of the school are paid by the
city, the province and the state. In these
various schools a speciality is made of
teaching the local industries
The professional school of carpentry
In Brussels, which has been in operation
for only three years. offers course of
four years, the first year being devoted
to general studies. It aims to turn out
a good workman at the end of the course.
at about the age of IS years. instead
of forcing the youth to go through the
long apprenticeship at present custom
airy.
In Amsterdam a visit was paid to the
school for metal workers. This school
will be classed as a preapprenticesh1p
school, it not being claimed that trade
is taught completely. One-half OF the
time is devoted to shop work, the other
half to the theory of the various branches
taught in the shops and to drawing. The
school is very thorough and it is said
that the graduates are taking leading |
positions in the various trades 1t is
hoped that later specialized work in the |
three trades will follow the general
this to occupy from one to two |
years.
Watch Graduates
For three years after graduation the
pupils of this school are required to re-
port to the school the names of their en-
ployers, amount of wages received and
the character of the work performed. In
this manner the officials of the school
keep in touch with its former pupils.
In Scotland the two representative in
situations devoted to industrial education
are the Heriot-Watt college at Edinburgh |
and the Glasgow and West of Scotland
Technical college at Glasgow. The work
of the former school embraces day, even
ing and summer courses along the lines
of applied education.
The Glasgow and West Scotland Tech
meal college at Glasgow is housed in a
new building of imposing proportions
Originating as long ago as 1896 as Ander-
sons college, it owes its existence to John
Anderson. In 1886 this college was united
with other local institutions to form the
great school which is now conducted
under the present name. The expressed
purpose of this school is not to supersede
the ordinary apprenticeship. but rather
to supplement 1t.
The total attendance on the school IS
about 5000 students.
Few persons outside of Ireland are
aware of the extensive provision made |
for industrial education in Ireland. This
matter is considered of such Importance |
that a sum of no less than million dol |
lars is spent annually in this island for
this object, and this with a population not
very much larger than that of Massachu-
setts Of this sum $250,000 is contributed
by the local authorities and the remainder
by the council of agriculture.
It is significant that the work of giving
Industrial training in Ireland is in charge
of a department bearing the title depart
ment of agriculture and technical instruc-
ton for Ireland" thus placing agriculture
and the handicrafts on the same plane.
This department is of recent creation,
ana the Impulse given by II 10 SCleIce anu
technical instruction may be realized
when it is stated that in 1900 but six
secondary schools possessed, laboratories,
while in 1907 265 of these schools are
equipped with these important adjuncts.
Sent by Courts
There are 500 boys attending the Dublin
industrial school. They have been sent
there by the courts, not as rule for
criminal offenses, but on account of the
inability or indisposition of the parents
to properly support them. The school is
in charge of the Christian Brothers, and
the government pays about shillings
per week for the board and care of each
boy.
A visit to Killarney was particularly
interesting, for here were found two
schools of lace making, each conducted
at convent Girls are taken at from IL
to IS years of age and are taught vari-
Gus branches of hand lace making.
Two schools visited in Cork were Of
particular interest. The first was the
Christian Brothers school. This is
large school, fully equal to the typical
Massachusetts, manual training schools
In the theoretical departments of this
school ii was observed that the walls of
the rooms were lined with cases which
contained exhibits showing the complete