The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany

by Arthur Henry Chamberlain

Special Reports on Educational Subjects, London, 1902, Vol. 9, page 451.

United States Consular Reports. Description of the School of Carpentry and Cabinetmaking in Magdeburg, Prussia, No. 238, July, 1900.—Wm. Diederich.

Same. School of Marine Machinists, Flensburg, Prussia. No. 174, March, 1895.

Same. Technical and Merchant Schools 56:208, page 78.—J. C. Monoghan.

Same. Technical Education in Germany. 54:202, page 447.—J. C. Monoghan.

Transcriber’s Note: The table below lists all corrections applied to the original text.

• [p. viii]: for development read department → deportment
• [p. 007]: make any one clasification → classification
• [p. 010]: Conrad’s Handworterbuch → Handwörterbuch
• [p. 011]: Wurtemburg industrial → Wurttemburg
• [p. 012]: other conditions (examinations) or these schools → of
• [p. 012]: Ages ranges from fourteen to thirty → range
• [p. 012]: the only instition → institution
• [p. 013]: [errata] Pure Air → Art
• [p. 014]: Technischeschulen → Technische Schulen
• [p. 016]: Continuation Schools or Fortbilbungsschulen → Fortbildungsschulen
• [p. 016]: Fortbildtngsshulen → Fortbildungsschulen
• [p. 017]: [extra comma] at this age, forced to → age forced
• [p. 017]: a statsment made by Mr. Michael N. Sadler→ statement
• [p. 018]: [quote added] “Among the great number
• [p. 019]: [errata] in the arts which enable → ennoble
• [p. 019]: born under a luckler star → luckier
• [p. 020]: continuation of Fortbildungsschulen → or
• [p. 023]: adapt their instrnction → instruction
• [p. 023]: [errata] Here the committee must meet → communities
• [p. 025]: [errata] character and development of the boys → deportment
• [p. 027]: higher mathemematics, mechanics, physics → mathematics
• [p. 028]: is carried suffciently far → sufficiently
• [p. 028]: classes are arranged acording to → according
• [p. 029]: smaller towns or in the conntry → country
• [p. 029]: university extention courses → extension
• [p. 031]: similar to Fortbildungsschulen in Leipsig → Leipzig
• [p. 031]: schools have seen a marvelous developement → development
• [p. 032]: attended by journeyman and apprentices → journeymen
• [p. 032]: good manners (gute sitten) → Sitten
• [p. 033]: [normalized] throughout various parts of the empire → Empire
• [p. 033]: [extra comma] under eighteen years of age, might → age might
• [p. 033]: [extra comma] the employer, must → employer must
• [p. 033]: Baden. compulsory school laws → Baden, compulsory
• [p. 034]: to be determined eventually be → by
• [p. 035]: worthy of note that she delares → declares
• [p. 039]: that the Forthildungsschule → Fortbildungsschule
• [p. 039]: foundation of most of the Faceschulen → Fachschulen
• [p. 046]: Wagonmakers and Wheelrights → Wheelwrights
• [p. 047]: Free hand drawing → Free-hand
• [p. 056]: becomes the property ot the father → of
• [p. 057]: The Lehrwerkstatten or apprentice shops → Lehrwerkstätten
• [p. 059]: fulfil certain teohnical qualifications → technical
• [p. 059]: practical iu the highest degree → in
• [p. 062]: [missing letter] The governing power is in ome cases → some
• [p. 063]: [errata] laws of building; models of heat → modes
• [p. 067]: Buxtehede → Buxtehude
• [p. 067]: Magdeberg → Magdeburg
• [p. 068]: Orchatz → Oschatz
• [p. 068]: Zitteau → Zittau
• [p. 069]: [normalized] schools of this class in the empire → Empire
• [p. 070]: the elementary ranches in the curriculm → curriculum
• [p. 071]: Inserlohn → Iserlohn
• [p. 071]: Mlttweida → Mittweida
• [p. 071]: compiled from tables appearing the Report → appearing in the
• [p. 074]: [missing letters] Webereilehrwerkstä en → Webereilehrwerkstätten
• [p. 074]: itinerant masters. (Wenderlehrer) → Wanderlehrer
• [p. 074]: lines of the indnstry → industry
• [p. 075]: In each of the several classses → classes
• [p. 077]: Grefeld → Crefeld
• [p. 079]: [errata] Knitting, 2 yrs. → Knitting, 1yr.
• [p. 079]: [errata, removed line] Machinery | | | 3 | 6 | 2
• [p. 081]: superior artizans → artisans
• [p. 081]: prepared in the Volkschule → Volksschule
• [p. 081]: [errata] the participants enter → participants to enter
• [p. 085]: [added chapter number] V
• [p. 086]: show the aplication of science → application
• [p. 087]: in the atter country → latter
• [p. 087]: the necessity or heroic action → for heroic
• [p. 087]: due measure of public respsct → respect
• [p. 087]: by A. E. Twentymen → by A. E. Twentyman
• [p. 088]: Dresden, 1826 → 1828
• [p. 088]: principally for the Kiugs dominions → King’s
• [p. 089]: styled the Koeniglische Technische Hochschule → Königliche
• [p. 090]: Berlin provisory statue → statute
• [p. 091]: State and and each administered → State and each
• [p. 092]: The organization of deparments of work → departments
• [p. 093]: [errata] For the one course plan however → The one
• [p. 093]: [errata] have been substituted → has
• [p. 093]: [errata] substituted the several → substituted for the
• [p. 093]: Program der Königl. Technischen Hochschule → Programm
• [p. 093]: Den Horern bleibt die Wahl → Hörern
• [p. 093]: frei überlassen, Für ein geordnetes → überlassen, für
• [p. 098]: Kunstgewerbsechulen are schools of art → Kunstgewerbeschulen
• [p. 104]: Alcace-Lorraine, Mülhausen, Strasburg → Alsace
• [p. 104]: Prussia, Aix-la Chapelle → Aix-la-Chappelle
• [p. 105]: Enrichtungen für → Einrichtungen
• [p. 105]: Gewerbliche Erzichnung → Erziehung
• [p. 105]: Dr. G. Kerschenteuer → Kerschensteiner
• [p. 105]: Denkschriften über die Entiwickelung → Entwickelung
• [p. 105]: Fortbildungschulen in Prussen → Fortbildungsschulen in Preussen
• [p. 105]: Encyklopädischer Handbuch → Encyklopädisches
• [p. 105]: Handbuch der Pädogik → Pädagogik
• [p. 105]: in unserer zeit → Zeit
• [p. 105]: [removed in] Fortbildungsschulen in Deutschlands
• [p. 106]: [removed comma] Jahresbericht der Königlichen, Industrieschule
• [p. 106]: Technischen Stattslehranstalten → Staatslehranstalten
• [p. 107]: Program der Königlichen Fachschule → Programm
• [p. 108]: School of Marine Machinists, Fleusburg, Prussia → Flensburg