ITS REAL VALUE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1192, 29 July 1911, Page 3

ITS REAL VALUE.

'TECHNICAL EDUCATION. The Wellington Technical Education Board last evening dealt with a letter from the l'etono Technical School managers, relating to the matter of apprenlices. ' The managers desired ii eonfernncc between the .l'elono and tho Wellington Technical School utithorities un tho question (if whether apprentices having two years' training at either rehool should be paid »n extra weekly wage in tho last two years of their apprenticeship. It. was proposed also to invil.B emi)ltiyers lo attend. Mr, Luke moved tint the hoard agree to meet: tin , lWono Board as'desired. 111 , . La Trobn said that it was not the. aim of the lochnic.il schools to turn out boys who should bo of tho same vahro nt'lhe end of 'lie twn years ns they would, bo wore they in employment. Tho object was not to ' leach ' them what would beof immediate value lo them >n much us to give them instruction that would make, them cfiieii'iit workmen in (ho future. As a. matter nf fact the value of tho education would not bo felt in Iho first two or three years, bill, those two years would lie of greater ultimate benefit than any workshop experience of , tho same, perioij. Mr. I). Itoberlscn said Dint, his experience as an employer had l>cen that Din buy who look tip the technical school work regularly was a belter lad, generally,- than one who did not. Such a boy understood plans mid 'technicalities better. "As to efficiency, you can't nialw engineers in five years. You must nol: let boys think (hat in Iwo or three years they will be engineers." The request was agreed to, and t-li-r* whole Ixiard was appointed to attend tho conference.