Excerpt from Report of the Commission on Industrial Education: Submitted to the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey in Accordance With Joint Resolution No; 11, Approved April 14, 1908
There is a remarkable unanimity of opinion on important points in the replies to the Commission’s queries, and this agree ment is shared by the workers as well as the employers. Almost unanimous is the demand for more industrial schools, and the expansion of those now established in the State. Quite unani mous, likewise, is the opinion that manual training, as taught in the public schools at present, is a valuable preparation for the industrial-vocational schooling which should follow, but does not fulfill the requirements of the present movement for indus trial education. Manual training is not vocational in its aim. It does not prepare for a specific vocation, or trade. Its purpose is purely cultural, and it is of value to all alike, whether a trade or a profession is entered upon.
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