Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — SUPERIOR TECHNICAL TRAINING. [ARTICLE]

SUPERIOR TECHNICAL TRAINING.

No nation in the world except the Unified States has developed industrially more rapidly than Germany. The empire, organized only thirty years ago, has become a great manufacturing nation, has forced its way into European, Asiatic and South American markets against the competition of England and the United States, and is fighting resolutely for new territory. With the growth of a Btrong national Bentiment, there has been astonishing progress in all the departments of industry where trained intelligence and skilled hands play an important part. Manufacturers of the United States, of Great Britain and of France have inquired into the causes of this rapid progress in Germany. They agree that it is largely due to superior technical education. When the empire was established in 1871, the general government found ready to its hand the technical schools that had been fostered by the several German states. Under the policy of the empire all of these were encouraged, and from them was developed a system of higher technical schools.