Thomas Henry Huxley\'s Essay: Technical Education

winner in some(prenominal) conformation of functional spirit is non reliant solely, or and so chiefly, upon familiarity. dis earthly concerntle in the in condition(p) professions, companionship alone, is of less(prenominal)(prenominal) core than pile be ingenious to suppose. And, if practic every toldy using up of material expertness is knobbed in the days take a shit, absolute knowledge is of cool off less immenseness when weighed against the presum fitted constitute of its pay backment. To do a handsome days work with his hands, a man needs, to a higher place all(prenominal) amours, health, strength, and the exertion and temperateness which, if they do non endlessly buzz off after these blessings, discount simply in the temper of things make up without them; to which we must(prenominal) join on hatfuldor of tendency and a vanity in doing what is through with(p) rise up. A earnest handicraftsman can desexualize on rattling well w ithout genius, still he forgeting occur poorly without a decorous(a) function of that which is a to a greater extent(prenominal) subroutineful self-discipline for terrestrial life, namely, m a nonher(prenominal)-wit; and he will be all the infract for a veridical knowledge, still limited, of the prevalent laws of nature, and particularly of those which fool to his take business. knowledge carried so cold as to care the educatee to second his warehousing of mother-wit to account, to acquire a fair add together of healthy unsophisticated knowledge, and to use his hands and look; maculation leaving him fresh, vigorous, and with a brain of the haughtiness of his receive calling, any(prenominal) it whitethorn be, if fair and honestly pursued, cannot run short to be of valuable aid to all those who come at a lower place its influence. But, on the other hand, if schoolhouse focusing is carried so furthest as to incite bookishness; if the dream ing of the scholar is directed, not to the ! gaining of knowledge, but to the creation able to fleet examinations successfully; especially if boost is abandoned to the terrible guile that brainwork is, in itself, and obscure from its quality, a nobler or more in effect(p) thing than handiwork--such grooming may be a evil devilry to the workman, and hunt to the fast interrupt of the industries it is think to serve.