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Page 135 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 127 - ... year at some suitable place, for the instruction of county supervisors, township trustees, superintendents, students of the college, and others. 2. To disseminate information and instruction to county supervisors and other highway officers...
Page 13 - I have made a somewhat careful study of Germany's economic success, and in doing that I have become firmly convinced that the explanation of the remarkable German progress is to be traced in the most direct manner to the German system of education. The schoolmaster is the great corner-stone of Germany's remarkable commercial and industrial progress. The school system of Germany bears a relation to the economic situation that is not met with in any other country.
Page 13 - Consequently the manufacturers give liberal support to the textile schools, and further encourage them by providing employment to graduates. There is no doubt that it pays them. A manufacturer in Elberfeld was showing me one day a length of dress material. "That," he said, "is going to England, and it is made of English stuff.
Page 127 - ... 2. To disseminate information and instruction to county supervisors and other highway officers who make request; answer inquiries and advise such supervisors and officers on questions pertaining to highway improvements, construction and maintenance, and...
Page 135 - there is no class of our community of whom we may be so justly proud as our mechanics...
Page 13 - is going to England, and it is made of English stuff. I get the materials from England, manufacture them, and send them back. I pay carriage both ways, and yet I can sell this in the English market." "How do you manage to do it? " I asked. "Well," he said, " you see this is a nice design ; there is brains in it.
Page 127 - ... power for same, the commission shall furnish as soon as practicable thereafter, a trained and competent highway builder for such demonstration free to the county. 3. To formulate reasonable conditions and regulations for public demonstrations; and to promulgate advisory rules and regulations for the repair and maintenance of highways. 4. To keep a record of all the important operations of the highway commission, and report same to the governor at the close of each fiscal year.
Page 293 - If you will tell us the specific document you want, we will be glad to get it for you." We asked for everything relating to a particular phase of a subject. After a while they said, "We have thus-and-so.
Page 135 - The farmer and the mechanic require special schools and appropriate literature quite as much as any one of the socalled learned professions. ... It is plainly an indication that education is taking a step in advance when public sentiment begins to demand that the faculties of young men shall be trained with some reference to the vocation to which they are to be devoted through life.