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ON the occasion of the prize distribution to the students of the Goldsmiths' Institute at New Cross, oh December 12, Mr. Balfour made some remarks on technical education and its bearing upon foreign competition which are worthy of comment. With the optimism which characterises this statesman's utterances, he expressed the opinion that although “unquestionably there was a time when we ignored the great need for a thorough scientific and artistic training in connection with our great industries,” yet he was 7ldquo; not sure whether we are not now verging upon the opposite danger to that which we ran a few years ago,” for there was a tendency, in some quarters at all events, to “ talk as if the only thing which had to be done to restore British manufactures to their pristine condition in the world's industries was a manipulation of our methods of education.”
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GREEN, A. Foreign Industrial Competition and Technical Education . Nature 65, 156–157 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065156a0
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