Education in the United States; a Series of Monographs Prepared for the United States Exhibit at the Paris Exposition 1900

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...school studies. In view of the marvelous progress in providing educacational facilities for art and art industrial development, that has gone on in the United States since the publication of this little pamphlet in 1874, I venture to quote from it a couple of pages showing the author's belief in the American possibilities of such development a quarter of a century ago. AMERICAN FACILITIES FOR GENERAL INTRODUCTION OF ART TRAINING While, in the countries of Europe, whatever relates to the people in education, as in other matters, is in the control and general direction of the central government, so that what the central power decides to do is readily and immediately set in motion throughout the entire country, in the United States there is wisely no such central control. This power inheres to the states and to the local communities within the states. This very circumstance though somewhat, it may be, delaying the adoption of useful measures, yet renders the wise adaptation of training to the peculiar industries and needs of the various parts of the country far more probable. It is readily seen that the kind of special technical training would vary, as it was applicable to a manufacturing, a farming, or a mining community. INFLUENCE OF LOCALITIES ON ART DEVELOPMENT Indeed, this has already been exemplified in a marked degree in the different developments of the schools of science in the several states, adapting themselves in their chief courses of instruction to the industrial demands of their localities. So we may hope to have in the art future of this country, as have the different European countries, art capitals famous for their peculiar developments, and queening it over their own states, as do Dresden and Munich and Florence, and the...