CONTENTS. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Introductory note---- A combination of apprenticeship and academic education needed.. The United States___. Austria Belgium Germany. Page. 5 79 12 14 17 17 19 21 Switzerland France Hungary Statutory regulations relating to apprentices.. The attitude of trade unions to the apprenticeship system and to industrial education Types of systems I. Type in which shop and school are intimately connected_ Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Mass. Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company and Western Louisiana Railroad Company- 42 43 Other railroads__. 43 Ludlow Manufacturing Company, Ludlow, Mass. 44 46 D. A. Tompkins Company, Charlotte, N. C...--- 46 47 47 48 48 48 49 R. K. Le Blond Machine Tool Company, Cincinnati, Ohio__ 50 51 51 52 54 The cooperative courses of the University of Cincinnati, 54 Types of systems-Continued. II. Type under which apprentices are controlled to some extent North End Union, Boston, Mass. R. Hoe & Company, New York City. Brown-Ketcham Iron Works, Indianapolis, Ind__ III. Mixed types of apprentice systems___. Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, Pa... Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company, Providence, Bullard Machine Tool Company, Bridgeport, Conn. Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, R. I., and General considerations and conclusions___. List of references relating to the education of apprentices_ INDEX__. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, September 17, 1908. SIR: The interest in industrial education which has arisen in this country has brought into new prominence the whole system of training for trades by a regular course of apprenticeship. Education by apprenticeship and education by schools have gone on for many generations side by side as two entirely distinct and unrelated forms of education. The newer movements are concerned with bringing these two kinds of education together and making of them a new kind of education which shall train equally for skill and for intelligence. This new movement is attended with obvious difficulties. It is clear that among other things a better knowledge of the apprenticeship system as it is to-day is urgently needed. With a view to meeting this need, Dr. Carroll D. Wright, who is known everywhere as a foremost authority in matters relating to trade education, has prepared at my request an account of the apprenticeship system, which I have the honor to transmit herewith. I beg to recommend that it be published as the sixth number of the Bulletin of the Bureau of Education for the current year. There can be no doubt that the desired combination of schooling and apprenticeship must be approached from many sides and will be accomplished in many ways. The treatment of apprenticeship presented by Colonel Wright describes certain ways in which this combination may be effected, as shown by recent experience in a few of our leading industries. It will throw light also upon the subject as a whole, and will doubtless be of value even in those undertakings in which the problem is approached by altogether different ways. Very respectfully, ELMER ELLSWORTH BROWN, The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. Commissioner. 5 |