COLLEGE ENGINEERING EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 932, 27 September 1910, Page 7

COLLEGE ENGINEERING EDUCATION.

There are :;signs' ..that the belief in: a college engineering education ..which has gained| general acceptance during the last teh: or' twenty years is undergoing some reaction .towards the earlier,-.ideal of a .purely business or-works .education, exoept, of : course,.. as 1 , regards the: elements of knowledge. • As an indication of this have a book by Mr. Crane, of Chicago; jW ii apparently designed to. prove that all higher education is unnecessary, if. not- actually; hurtful.- It is not possible in a brief note to argue the whole question from and, /known facts,- but the.reaction'is worth noting as ??• judication that a college .training has its limitations of usefulness.' Mr, Taylor, another American, probably got nearer to about college education thanMr. Crane when he said that a college training, .for: engineers/made them worse to have about a ivorks or a business liouso during the.first two- or three years after ■ leaving college, but superior. after ■ the initial period of restlessness, conceit, andpra:ctical; ignorance had been passed. After / that period tho technically-trained •man begins to learii 'how to apply his -kftowledgo .in.practical ways.and Jiow to curb.an over-developed love of .abstract 'knowledge as distinct from that Which ia ; immediately useful.' The reaction :exein-■ phfied bynMr,: Crane illustrates'one economic weakness of much of our higher education, viz., its failure to. direct the enthusiasm of tho student' towards the ultimate-practical purposes of knowledge rather than to its 1 mere, acquisition.

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