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THE national importance of a close and strong relationship between science and' industry is shown by Sir William Ramsay in a letter in Monday's Times. Two points upon which emphasis is laid are that; numerous scholarships awarded by county councils represent an expenditure of public funds which can do: little to promote industrial progress, and that our manufacturers offer few openings for men who have received a sound and scientific education. Technical education, as it is understood in this country, and as most of our technical schools are compelled to understand it if they wish to' obtain students, consists of lectures on the rudiments of science, illustrated by practical work of a very elementary, kind. It is scarcely necessary to say that the training thus received is of little value to the students or to the community in comparison with the work carried on in the technical high schools of Germany. Sir William Ramsay recently had an opportunity of conversing with the manager of a large, chemical works in Germany, which manufactures no product of which it sells less than 100 tons a year, and he directs the attention of our manufacturers to the following facts as to the connection between science and industry in Germany.
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Technical Education and Industry . Nature 68, 576–577 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068576a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/068576a0