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...reached the depression point. With the continuous and successful development of the case system as applied to business, however, there will inevitably be an upward swing. Just as when Professor Langdell applied the case system to legal teaching fifty years ago, men from College will gradually turn from office apprenticeship to graduate school training...
...routine work. Foreign Trade needs college men on the practical side. The practical details cannot be mastered from a book and it is hoped that the college men will realize that their college education is to be of benefit, not immediately upon graduation, but after a period of apprenticeship, two, three or five years later and thereafter. The man without a college education or its equivalent seldom rises above a limited level; the man with the training, the foundation and practical work can and does rise far above this level. But he must adapt himself to the changed conditions between...
...Germans trained long and intently for foreign trade. Germans left the fatherland and went to all corners of the world, married natives, carried Germany with them and became a factor in the commerce of that country and of Germany. The British serve long apprenticeship at salaries that would not be attractive to us but they have carried British Trade to all parts of the world. After an apprenticeship in a Canadian Bank of some seven or eight years, a man is eligible for assignment as manager to a branch bank at a salary of about $8000 a year. Unattractive? Financially...
...This is the so-called "clinical clerk" system, comparatively recently introduced as a method of clinical instruction. It may be said to be an elaboration merely of the method which assigned the student to some practitioner for his experience; now he is assigned to a hospital and serves his apprenticeship under the direction of the hospital staff...
...Education is not adequately indicated by the phrase "the training of teachers". The School is much concerned, to be sure, with technical problems of teaching, and will always make special provision for inexperienced students, who need not only a general introduction to their profession but also a practical apprenticeship in the work of instruction. It would be difficult, however, to justify the establishment of a Graduate School for the sole purpose of perfecting teachers in craftsmanship. Not that this is unimportant; indeed it is highly desirable, and many teachers fail or are less effective than they might...