Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Labor Bulletin of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Vol. 10: September, 1906
We already have industrial schools, manual training high schools, and technical colleges. The motive underlying the introduction of these types of educational activities has been to benefit the industries. That they have successfully trained foremen, superintendents, and managers is not to be questioned. Present economic conditions demand another type of school which will have the same general motive except that the specific aim must be to benefit the industries through training skilled workmen. That the industries are in need of trained workmen is unquestioned and that the modern technical schools are not meeting this need is likewise indisputable, Special Supervisor, Department of Industrial Education of the State Executive Commit tee oi the Young Men's Christian Associations of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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