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INTELLECTUAL forces are … broken and unco-ordinated. Stores of rich material and reservoirs of valuable experiences have been accumulated in national and local collections, and in the professional and other scientific and commercial associations. But the channels of communication … are scanty. … Each of some 140 local education authorities provides technical education suitable to its own local needs and limited by a generous or a parsimonious financial policy. Is the total effect a patchwork or an organic whole? Wasteful or efficient? … how can industrial organisations … and local industrial experience be brought into closer co-operation with those who provide the funds and control the schools and colleges? … Finally, there is left the question of which Central Authority is to direct the operations of the intellectual forces. … Some half-dozen government departments are engaged, directly or indirectly, in the application of education and research to industrial (including agricultural) problems. But there does not appear to be any minister in any department whose duty it is to see that these departmental efforts are duly co-ordinated.
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Education and Industry. Nature 121, 45–47 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121045a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121045a0