Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09
MINING EDUCATION SECURED VERY OFTEN
 BY CITY RESIDENTS
Writer In Mining Magazine Tells Of Some Interesting Facts In Regard To Educa- ton For Engineers

It might naturally be supposed that
 the mining engineering profession would be largely recruited from boys
 who have grown up in communities : associated in one way or another with the mining industry. While. of course,
 many such boys drift into it by oppor- , tunity or desire. it is a notable fact that very many of our distinguished ! mining engineers of today were born
 and reared in great cities remote from
 everything appertaining 10 mines.
 minerals. or geology. says F. Lynwood
 Garrison in Mining and Scientific
 Press Similarly some. if not ma
 iority of our great mining schools
 have had their origin and now flourish
 in large centers of industry and pop
 ulation in no way directly related or
 connected with the mining industry.
 student in every other branch of engineering may without difficulty find
 in all large cities practical applica
 tions of most of the technical subjects
 with which he must familiarize him
 self. but the mining student must
 needs go far afield. often 10 consider
 able expense. and seldom has the op-
 portunity of seeing what he learns in the class room put into immediate
 practical use. This is an unfortunate condition and serious handicap to the students. for an art is best taught in the atmosphere and environment in which it flOurishes. Probably the most ideal and certainly the most ia nous mining school in the world is that at Freiberg in SaXony, situated on the northern flank of the Erzse- birge. a mountainous district famous for it's mines since the Middle Ages. Indeed the old Saxon Mining Academy may justly claim to have been the mother and model of our American mining schools; the writings of it's professors. such as Plattner. Won Gotta, Rittenger. Beck and StelZner were and still are among the classics of the profession. And although its glories have departed with the closing down of most of the neighboring mines and the rise of institutions bet ter qualified to teach the Anglo-SaXOn. the Royal Saxon Mining Academy in my student days was name to con JuIe NltN anu Olitlcu itS SNuufhtN dh excellent technical training both the oretical and practical. Like most 1 German universities. the social atmos- phere of the place. however. was coarse and degenerate. sometimes de ! and often disgusting to American and English boys reared in 1 refined and cultured homes where the l laws of God and tue moral precepts !, of man had been taught and respected. |
 There has doubtless been great 1 advance in the efficiency of our Amer l ican mining schools in the last twenty I years. but at the same time there I sems to have been a needless dupli- cation of effort that has tended to crowd a profession already over stocked with varying degrees of tai ant Some of our Western universities have established mining schools and n ming schools as such have been started in western towns simply be- rause they happen to he relatively | near mining districts. ! once heard a mine manager say that as far as he could see the practical result of most of these schools was to spoil good -anchmen and make mighty poor en- ,ineers This brings me back to my
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