CHAPTER VI.

INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

Occupations of persons admitted to State asylums--Percentage of those having no education in industry, or regular occupation-- Importance of industrial education to the brain--Difficulty of obtaining it greater than formerly--Education of the brain has taken the place of industrial education, and with unfavorable results--The education of the schools does not qualify the mass of people to earn a living: it tends rather to unfit them for industrial labor--The interests of society require that the largest number be educated to be self-supporting--To secure this it is necessary to begin early in life--The same principles apply to education for domestic labor 95