 | 1872 - 826 pages
...and skill, add immensely to the material wealth of a nation. Such is the uniform testimony where " brains sit at the loom, and intelligence stands at the spinning wheel." But Mechanical Drawing is only the beginning of a course of Industrial training, which is to extend... | |
 | 1868 - 874 pages
...education to ours, many " of whom have none whatever. Their " productions show clearly that there is " not a machine working a machine, " but that brains sit...and " intelligence stands at the spinning" wheel." Mr. M'CONNELL says — " In the class " for which I was juror for England " I made a very careful examination... | |
 | 1868 - 606 pages
...education to ours, many of whom have none whatever. Their productions show clearly that there is Dot a machine working a machine, but that brains sit at the loom and intelligence stands at the spinning-wheel.' Let us hear another witness, thoroughly skilled in his own department. Mr. James E.... | |
 | John Scott Russell - 1869 - 462 pages
...education to ours, many of whom have none whatever. . . Their productions show clearly that there is not a machine working a machine, but that brains sit at the loom and intelligence stands at the spinning-wheel.' Mr. McCoNNELL says : ' In the class for which I was juror for England, I made a very... | |
 | John Lord Hayes - 1870 - 924 pages
...unsurpassed in many of our productions, we no longer hold that pre-eminence that was accorded to xis in 1851. The enormous strides that have of late been...exist here in the schools of the Cooper Institute of New York, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The cause, however, of the decline of the... | |
 | United States commission to the Paris expos, 1867 - 1870 - 816 pages
...surpassed in many of our productions, we no longer hold that pre-eminence that was accorded to us in 1801. The enormous strides that have of late been made by...exist here in the schools of the Cooper Institute of Sew York, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The cause, however, of the decline of the... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1870 - 608 pages
...English j urors, says that the cotton production of European countries showed clearly " that there is not a machine working a machine, but that brains sit at...loom, and intelligence stands at the spinning wheel." Mr. McConnell, engineer, declares that England must soon adopt a system of technical education, or... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1870 - 590 pages
...English jurors, says that the cotton production of European countries showed clearly " that there is not a machine working a machine, but that brains sit at...loom, and intelligence stands at the spinning wheel." Mr. McConnoll, eng_ineer, declares that England must soon adopt a system of technical education, or... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1870 - 826 pages
...education to ours, many of whom have none whatever. . . Their productions show clearly that there is not a machine working a machine, but that brains sit at the loom and intelligence stands at the spinning-wheel." Mr. MCCONNELL says: " In the class for which I was juror for England, I made a very... | |
 | Virginia. Department of Education - 1871 - 226 pages
...education than ours, many of whom have none whatever. Their productions show clearly that there is not a machine working a machine, but that brains sit at the loom and intelligence stands at the spinning-wheel. Seeing what has been done for other countries, and being convinced that a good general... | |
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I found both masters and foremen in other countries much more scientifically educated than our own. The workmen of other countries have a far superior education to ours, many of whom have none whatever. Their productions show clearly that it is not there... 
