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THE Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions held its annual conference on May 21 at Leicester. The new president, Mr. W. R. Bower, of Huddersfield Technical College, delivered an address on the position of technical education, in the course of which, after quoting with approval the views on this subject expressed in the Board of Education's Draft Regulations of 1917 for Continuation, Technical, and Art Courses, he described the aim of technical teachers as “to blend education with the life and work of the people.” The special characteristic of their method is to bring education by means of part-time courses, not only to the homes of the people, but also into their workshops and offices. Comparing their work with university work, he said, “Our principal function is to develop character and mentality by means of higher education amongst the many: the university should be more concerned with the individual and his fitness to become a specialist of the first order; their successes so far have been in letters, mathematics, and science rather than in technology, even if physicians and lawyers are included amongst the technologists.” The principal problem of technical education is “the satisfaction of the ambition of the young adult as a scholar, a craftsman, and a citizen.”
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Technology and Schools. Nature 111, 760 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111760a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111760a0