Report of the Commission on Technical Instruction, Appointed by Imperial Decree, 22nd June 1863. ... . Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty

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G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1869

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第 107 頁 - The proficiency of the pupils is consequently — 1st Class. 2nd Class. 3rd Class. 4th Class. 5th Class. 6th Class.
第 217 頁 - There is good reason to fear that if the pupils of the Polytechnic School were left free to choose between the posts offered by private industry and those reserved for them by the Government, the cleverest of them would give the preference to industry, which assures them positions, if not more honourable, at least more liberally remunerated ; hence might result great prejudice to the State. The Government seems to be aware of this, for it has already forbidden its engineers to serve any other companies...
第 296 頁 - Nimes has also an excellent school of design, likewise founded by the municipal council. It comprises four courses: — 1. A course of artistic drawing, including the figure, the round, landscape, and painting. 2. A course of ornamental drawing, with modeling and sculpture. 3. A course of linear drawing, including plans, designs of machines, &c.
第 95 頁 - ... hours ; drawing of machines, mechanics, study of machines, 4 hours ; modeling, and drawing from the round, 4 hours ; general chemistry, 1 hour ; study of raw materials, 1 hour ; commercial book-keeping, &c., 1 hour ; applied mechanics, 1 hour ; applied chemistry, 1 hour ; total, 21 hours per week. In the two elementary sections, the instruction is compulsory for all the courses. In the special sections, on the contrary, the choice of courses is left to the pupils. The school year commences on...
第 217 頁 - But the time required by the Polytechnic School, including the preparatory and complementary studies, is seven years, which is much too long for candidates who are anxious to begin practice as soon as possible. The difficulties of the examination for admission also exclude a large proportion of candidates : the consequence is that the number admitted every year is very limited. It shuts its doors against many hundreds of young men whose minds, though little disposed for mathematical abstractions,...
第 108 頁 - ... to trace his lines with a light hand. The instruction is given in German and Bohemian, but the professors are free to choose which language they please. There are, in some cases, professors of each language for the same course. The class-rooms, amphitheatres, and laboratories are spacious and well arranged. The collections are well stocked with models, and the workshop for modeling will accommodate 25 pupils at once.
第 222 頁 - ... terms of the certificate he deserves. At first the council of the school, when definitively classing the pupils according to their merits, took into account only the marks obtained at the final competitive examination] at the end of the third year, when each pupil had to present a project on a given subject. But experience soon showed that a pupil who answered correctly the questions put at the examination was not unfrequently a very indifferent pupil favoured by a lucky chance.
第 296 頁 - ... arithmetic are, geography, geometry, (plane, solid, and descriptive), algebra, mechanics (with application to steam-engines), practical hydraulics, drawing, physics, chemistry. The same society has also opened classes for apprentices. Municipal professional course of mathematics and their applications ; 130 pupils. A naval school supported 'by the department, the city of Bordeaux, and the Chamber of Commerce. There are from 150 to 200 pupils, who are taught on board the frigate La Brillante,...
第 218 頁 - In the mining and metallurgical industries, in those of gas, spinning, dyeing, paper making, plate glass manufacture, in the agricultural arts, and, lastly, in all the mechanical and chemical industries, we find at the head of large establishments old pupils of the Central School, who have nearly all attached their names to important improvements in the processes they were charged to conduct. The above statement is fully proved by the following figures :— of the 2,051 pupils who obtained on leaving...
第 209 頁 - The Council of Improvement shall deliberate on the system of instruction and of work, on the sale of the products of the Royal Schools of Arts and Trades, and on the regulations and programmes made or to be made. It shall in the first instance take cognizance of the regulations at present existing, and shall present a special report on the maintenance of the same or on the modifications that may be deemed advisable.

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