Excerpt from Beginnings in Industrial Education: And Other Educational Discussions Because this book deals with some educational questions of contemporary importance, from the standpoint of experience, I hope it may interest the lay reader as well as students of Education and directors of educational affairs. It consists of two parts - first, a series of related discussions of an important step forward in vocational education, under state auspices; and, second, a group of essays dealing with questions in the field of general education. About two years ago, the Governor of Massachusetts (Governor Guild), acting under a statute, appointed a Commission on Industrial Education, to carry on an active propaganda in the interest of industrial education throughout the state; and especially, in cooperation with municipalities, to found state-aided schools for the thorough instruction of boys and girls in the leading industries (including agriculture) of the commonwealth. Massachusetts thereby became the pioneer of public industrial education in this 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.