The economics of youth training in Germany

The German ideal may be termed the long view which must eventually lead the German nation to and maintain it in a foremost place as an industrial world power. The British method may be regarded as more philanthropic than patriotic; the ideal is admirable, but the bulk of the nation's workers are not catered for by this ideal and on the bulk of the workers much of the material prosperity of a nation must depend.

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