Show TECHNICAL EDUCATION SALT lare LAKE CITY november 1882 editor aseret deseret es eret newn I 1 w was as much interested in your suggestions to teacher in the NEWS of wednesday the and fully endorse the ideas advanced as there are I 1 find many who have had good opportunities at school but being young did not give the atten tion to the subject that they would do now if the facilities were again offered in an available shape having realized the necessity for education by being placed in positions where the want of it is more or less folt felt there is another branch of this subject to which I 1 wish to call the attention of those of the public wh who may be interested therein namely name 0 s technical or art araj education for or our young men who are learning trades that is Js a special education varying 1 12 with each trade and which schools colleges as now constituted cannot impart for fir instance where la 13 an opportunity in this city or even in hi this territory for a carpenter or to learn the sizes and proportions po r eions of the timbers used in roofs or the thickness and general design of walls so that in the event of his being called upon to design a structure larger than usual he would be able without considerable uncertainty to build intelligently telli gently with the maximum of strength consistent with tho the economy of material or for the engineer and machinist to learn the science and principles which underlie and are interwoven with the design of the work on which he is daily operating and to control the forces of nature for the use and benefit of mankind by understanding and obeying her laws oae one of the branches primarily necessary to any course of civil or mechanical engineering instruction is mechanical drawing or the art of representing represent ln mechanical constructions aa as they are or as they are intended to bo be aa as distinct from the representation of them as they appear to tho eye as la Is done by bv the tho artist or photographer this is an art arc of great exactness and in common with any exa exact ct science the study and Int intelligent elligen t understanding thereof has haa its effect e ec t upon the habits of the interested re te d student rendering him more exact and precise in any other occupation which he may follow having called atte nite attention ution to the lack of opportunity for technical education I 1 will propose a remedy there are in this city two railroad Kail road companies employing a number of men and several beveral machine a h 0 TA builders etc now let them combine together obtain a hall la in bome suitable location locations and let the proprietor or superintendent of each shop devote bome pome portion of his time times perhaps for one evening each week as a teacher of the science which ho he dom dow or should practice practice irac tice and by all uniting their efforts in an organization where each one can teach that branch or part thereof in which he is the best informed the pupils aplis will havo have the benefit of the waa was ideas of each teacher who should be BO so well abie abla to teach the science of building as those who build and who should be as well able to teach the art alt of designing machinery as those who are dally daily engaged in such work perhaps some may say eay that they are busy and have not the time so am 1 I as busy as any one dare to be and awill I 1 will devote one evening each week the coming winter to such an enterprise borne boma may say that they nave have learned what they banow by hard may say learned what they banow by hard study and eee see no reason why they should impart it tr others sach bach are welcome to all the satisfaction such a feeling may give them and I 1 would remind them of the fact that a well that contains but little water has the most moat need to fear being pumped dry in conclusion I 1 would say that having thrown out the above idera and asked for operation cooperation co if any one feels that he can offer a better proposition ro position go ahead and I 1 will join ohi ohl with you I 1 do not expect that there is any money in it but I 1 am one of those who while he can appreciate preci ate the good things of this life think that there is something to be accomplished in a lifetime ibe lue besides sides bides merely making money ENGINEER |