Excerpt from What Should a Present Day Metallurgical Education Comprise?: Annual Commencement Address; May 25, 1917

The English department, the modern language depart ment and the other departments spoken of are right in their view that a man Should be broadened in these subjects. The better the training and the more education of a general character that a man has, the better and more useful citizen he will make, but it must always be remembered that the ultimate and final object for which he attends a technical school and seeks a technical education is to obtain specific knowledge of certain subjects which will enable him to be useful in this particular work after his graduation. He should attain this condition of usefulness shortly after leav ing school, and not only at the age of seventy, when he is ready to graduate from life's school.

The essentials of the matter may be summed up in this statement: The student should have acquired a general education when he enters the technical school, and should not acquire it during his residence there as part of the regu lar curriculum. Perhaps the real difficulty in the matter is to be found in the primary and secondary educations which he receives. The total length of time of this preparatory education is twelve years, eight in the primary school and four in the high school. If to this be added one year or two of general college training, or if the high school course be made five years, he should have acquired sufficient general education to enable him to broaden himself if that be neces sary, and not take time from that allotted to his specific technical education to do so.

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