The  Munich  program,  which  has  proved  most
efficient  among  foreign  schools,  is  carried  out  in
the  United  States  only  in  a  modified  form  and
by  certain  wealthy  corporations.  The  apprentice-
ship schools  of  the  General  Electric  Company,
the  Westinghouse  Company,  the  New  York  Cen-
tral Railroad,  and  a  dozen  other  well-known  and
prosperous  concerns  attest  the  success  and  econ-
omy of  this  method  of  training  workmen.  In
drafting  a  final  program  for  public  trade  edu-
cation, study  of  these  institutions  must  play  a
prominent  part.  The  instruction  there  given  may
be  narrow  from  an  academic  and  cultural  point
of  view,  but  it  comprises  the  necessary  industrial
elements.  It  teaches  what  business  needs ;  the
public  schools  would  add  what  society  and  hu-
manity need.  The  General  Electric  Company's
school  devotes  seven  and  one  half  hours  per
week  to  theory  and  fifty-five  hours  to  shop  prac-
tice in  training-rooms  equipped  for  this  special
purpose.  This  plan  secures  both  the  advantages
of  the  French  school,  where  the  work  is  done
under  the  eye  of  an  instructor,  and  identification
with  actual  conditions  of  manufacture — an  ideal
opportunity  which  none  but  the  most  powerful

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of  corporations  can  supply,  and  which  is  most
nearly  approximated  in  the  educational  world  by
the  part-time  continuation  school,  including  gen-
eral practice  in  the  curriculum.
