Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

CHAPTER XVI SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION We can offer only a slender contribution on this very important subject, because the whole question of technical education for the young worker is in an extremely unstable condition. The establishment of any scheme of compulsory continuation of education for boys and girls who have begun industrial work will alter the aspect of affairs entirely; and in England some action of the kind is sure to be taken shortly. Every employer ought to be facing these questions:—Shall I select young people who have undergone some previous training in trade or technical schools ? If so, what sort of preparation for my work shall I prescribe or recommend in these schools ? What form of training shall I give my young workers in my establishment; either (a) starting from the groundwork they have received at a technical school, or (&) starting from the begin- ning ? And further, he has to ask himself: How are all my workers to be selected ? How are they to be classified after selection ? The introduction of any system by which an employer has to set his young workers free for a certain number of hours in the day-time each 187 1