The German System of Industrial Schooling

just beyond the point where they are willing to work with their hands, and where they are inclined to prefer the 'genteel' clerkship to the better paid and more valuable labor of the trained mechanic or the farmer?" It is with this significant remark that Mr. Ira Jewell Williams in a preface calls attention to the evident lack in present-day American education, and to the way out as shown by the Hon. Ralph C. Busser, Consul at Erfurt, Germany, in his careful analysis of "The German System of Industrial Schooling". The question here propounded has divided the educational forces of the day into two camps. One group of the Old Guard, firmly entrenched behind the bulwark of "culture and discipline," struggle for "things as they are"; on the other side a mixed band of scientific experts, progressive educators, and individual faddists raise the cry for "practical education to meet individual needs".