On page S48 the author of this book puts his finger upon mie of the weaknesses in the present situation rcgarding industrial education, and at thfi aame time points out one ot the most fruitful fields of effort He says, One of the gireat problems connected witii voeatiooal eduoaticm is the systematic training of a sufficient number of instructors (x existing and proposed vocational sdiools. The lessons of our industrial unpreparedness as revealed by the war have not been lost; never in our histoiy has there been sudi a keen realization of the dependence of production upon skill, and the part that wise methods of training can have in cultivating skill. A few years ago we were greatly concerned about supplying skilled workers; now we realize the equal necessity of training men and women to utilize the ddll which the woikers bring to thdr dail emplcirment; hence tibe demand iat training foremen and employment managers. In our ways and means for meeting these increasing demands we are at once fortunate and unfortunate; fortunate in adequate financial support for sound instructor training plans; unfortunate in a shortage of people to organize and direct them, and doubly unfortunate in a lack of organized praetical material for use in instructor (teadier) training riasflcfl, Teadiertraining under the terms of the Smith-H ughes A ct occupies a unique position in that a considera Ueamount of money may be made available at tiie very outset of the woik a condition whidi has rardiy existed in American educational histoiy when new types of Bducation have been proposed. The law itse Kmakes an a Hot.
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