Excerpt from An Address on Technical Education and Industrial Drawing It is a common thing to hear sensible men say, as it is also fre quently said in newspapers, that for the duties of real life the chil dren in the public schools are not so well prepared now as they were twenty years ago, or even fifty years ago, though they know more, and it costs more to teach them, - whilst a silver-tongued orator in Massachusetts has stated that under the old district school system, when a boy spent a few weeks in the school in winter, and worked the rest of the year on the farm, he -got a better because a more practical education than he can get in the country to-day. The trouble about such remarks as these is that they are true; and that it is possible for them to be true reflects great glory on the advancement of this country in civilization, and much discredit upon public educators and public education, thus lagging behind the progress and failing to supply the educational needs of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.