(1) A Handbook of Vocational Education (2) A Class-Book of Commercial Knowledge

Abstract

(1) THE aim of Dr. Taylor's book is to give “a systematic survey of the general field of vocational education, embodying both the historical and logical aspects of the subject.” But the author has not done full justice either to the subject or to himself by the short summary he has produced. With the introduction, pleading for equal opportunities for all, for education for citizenship, for a due recognition of the bearing of the industrial revolution on the teaching of trades, English opinion will be in full sympathy. So, too, with later chapters insisting on the need for guidance in the choice of an occupation, and on the part that trade schools should play in making good the loss of the thorough, all-round training afforded by the old apprenticeship system at its best. But the historical account of industrial education in Europe, given in chapter ii., is far too sketchy to be of real value.

(1) A Handbook of Vocational Education.

By Dr. J. S. Taylor. Pp. xvi + 225. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1914.) Price 4s. 6d. net.

(2) A Class-Book of Commercial Knowledge.

By E. J. Balley. Pp. iii + 125. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1914.) Price 1s. 6d.