Excerpt from A Quarter Century of Technical Education in New South Wales: A Monograph Published on the Occasion of the Exhibition of Students Work Held at the Sydney Technical College, Easter Week, 1909

The idea of marking the close of the first quarter-century of organised Technical training in New South Wales by the publication of this Monograph originated with the General Advisory Council, which Mr. Turner, the present Superintendent, called into existence immediately on his accession to his important office. Mr. Turner warmly approved of the idea, and a Publication Committee of six members of the General Council was appointed to draw up a scheme for the book. This scheme, when completed, was submitted to the Minister for Public Instruction, the Hon. J. A. Hogue, and he heartily fell in with the suggested plan, and kindly offered to write the Introduction, which appears under his name. It is to his action in arranging to place the resources of the Government Printing Office at the disposal of the Publication Committee that this Monograph has been rendered possible.

In this way the Committee have been enabled to submit to the public all over the world a record of solid progress in Technical Education, of which they venture to believe New South Wales will have no reason to be ashamed. No doubt much, very much, still remains to be accomplished but the progress of the past augurs well for a still more rapid growth in the future.

Australians are sometimes accused of an undue love for sport of all kinds, to the neglect, it is asserted, of a more intellectual training. The fallacy of those assertions is amply proved by the statistics contained in this Monograph. These show that, in proportion to the population served, the number of our Australian youths who, after a hard day's labour, eagerly devote their evenings to study and work in our Technical Colleges and Schools, bears favourable comparison to the record of any country throughout the civilised world.

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