The Apprenticeship Bulletin, Volume 1

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School of Printing of the North End Union, 1907

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Page 6 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Page 5 - We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitationrooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Page 2 - ... spirits full of activity, and full of energy, who are pressing, who are rushing forward, to great and capital objects, when you oblige them to be continually looking back.
Page 4 - That which our school courses leave almost entirely out, we thus find to be that which most nearly concerns the business of life. All our industries would cease, were it not for that information which men begin to acquire as they best may after their education is said to be finished.
Page 3 - In the handicraft trades only those persons have the right to direct apprentices who are 24 years of age and have completed the term of apprenticeship prescribed, by the chamber of trades in the trade in which it is desired to instruct apprentices, or have exercised that trade without interruption for five years, either on their own account or aa foremen, or in a similar capacity.
Page 5 - No, he will keep him there until the superintendent says, "You must not keep that boy there any longer; you are doing him an injustice." In order to avoid such a condition of affairs, I felt that we should have a superintendent of apprentices, a man whose business was to look after the apprentices, not only in the shop but out of the shop — a man who would see that he is taken care of, and see that the foreman does not take advantage ; but as fast as the boy learns he must be pushed along.
Page 5 - They do intend to impart the technical knowledge. We depend upon the various night schools established throughout the city, and we pray for the establishment of more and better night schools to give instruction for that portion of the training of the apprentices. The manufacturer has the commercial side of the question to deal with. He can impart the commercial side of the business in connection with the technical training. He must be a manual student commercially. He must be able to make that work...

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