The objection- to technical education at too early an age
is- notoriously that -it deprives boys and girls of a liberal education ; it equips' `them for doing things capably within a- narrow circle; but closes to their vision everything -that lies outside the circumference. Lord Eustace-proved by -his speech that he was alive to this danger. 'He -is- planning a network of connexions between education and commerce- and industry. He holds- that - technical schools and colleges must be the universities of commerce, and it is true, he says, that preparation for such technical education must begin in the junior schools. But he is convinced that it is entirely wrong to think of this preparatory education as aiming only at teaching a man to think about his particular :;ob. " Commerce and industry require all-round thinking."
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