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VERY few questions have been more discussed than that of education, and the reason for it is quite obvious; for educational methods are as varied as the students who have to be educated, and perfection can be reached only when a system is designed to meet the special circumstances of each individual. Some plants want pruning, others require fertilising, to produce their best results. One pedagogue thinks discipline should be the cure for all students' evils; others preach the importance of making the work attractive. The clash of ideals is heard most in our technical schools. One authority wants full-scale machinery, another says that the college workshop is merely a misleading caricature of a commercial factory. We are told that the student of science and technology can never become an educated man without a dose, and a fairly large dose, too, of the so-called “humanities”; he must always be narrow otherwise, if not absolutely lopsided, and can never be prepared in an institute of science and technology efficiently to undertake the full duties of citizenship.
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From an address delivered at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute on January 31.
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HOLLAND, T. Humanism in Technical Education. Nature 111, 376–377 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111376a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111376a0