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Excerpt from The Technical Educator, Vol. 1: An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education Before entering upon the course of lessons which we are about to lay before our readers in the technical educator (which is intended to furnish a practical sequel to the theoretical lessons contained in the popular educator, and to which work indeed it forms a necessary supplement), it appears desirable to state what is understood by Technical Education, and to give some general idea of the system upon which it is our intention to proceed. Technical Education, as we have already explained in the address To our Readers in the concluding volume of the popular educator, means literally education in any special art, and in this sense, of course, it is capable of almost the widest application. There is, in fact, no calling in life, no profession, voca tion, or employment, from statecraft and diplomacy downwards, through. The long lines of brain-work and hand-work, whose followers do not require a technical education peculiarly suited to it to enable them to pursue it with the best results to' themselves and the largest amount of benefit to others. At the present day, how ever, the term Technical Education is not generally understood in so wide a signification, but it is confined to special instruction designed to enable men who live by hand labour to apply to their handicraft the lead ing principles Of science which bear more especially upon it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.