CHAPTER XIX.

AUTOMATIC CONTRASTED WITH SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION -- _Continued._

The Failure of Education in America shown by Statistics of Railway and Mercantile Disasters. -- Shrinkage of Railway Values and Failures of Merchants. -- Only Three per Cent. of those entering Mercantile Life achieve Success. -- Business Enterprises conducted by Guess: Cause, Unscientific Education. -- Savage Training is better because Objective. -- Mr. Foley, late of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the Scientific Character of Manual Education -- Prof. Goss, of Purdue University, to the same Effect -- also Dr. Belfield, of the Chicago Manual-training School. -- Students love the Laboratory Exercises. -- Demoralizing Effect of Unscientific Training. -- The Failure of Justice and Legislation as contrasted with the Success of Civil Engineering and Architecture. 210