The Future of Ceramic Education
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-College Senior |
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Ceramic Engineering |
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History of Technology |
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Reference - Article/Document |
| Author(s): |
E. Tillotson |
| Description: | An address delivered at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on the Occasion of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Founding of Collegiate Training in Ceramics, February 16, 1925. It begins: "It is fitting that the subject of ceramic education be discussed at meetings of a great ceramic technical society, and it is particularly appropriate that a symposium on the subject be held at this University on the thirtieth anniversary of the inaugural of ceramic instruction. For here has been established a department of ceramic engineering from which graduates have gone forth to become leaders in industry. It is clear, however, that any individual or institution in a position of leadership, cannot expect to maintain the advantage without continual effort for betterment. A convocation like the present one is an indication of the desire to train men even more satisfactorily for the growing needs of the ceramic industry, and represents real progress in education. During these thirty years there has been created a new professional group, ceramic engineers, a uniquely American profession. This new group has more than justified the effort extended in its development, for the ceramic industry is one of the few really basic branches of manufacture in modern civilization. All industries, large and small, depend on some ceramic material for their very existence. Refractories, glass and ceramic materials of construction are essential in engineering. Many of these dependent industries have resulted directly from the developments of science, and probably all have benefited from scientific advancements. It is therefore important that the parent of all industries should bring its own science to the highest possible development, and should train an everincreasing number of men in its technology, not only for the benefit of itself, but also of those other industries which employ ceramic products." Citation: E. W. Tillotson (1925) THE FUTURE OF CERAMIC EDUCATION1 Journal of the American Ceramic Society 8 (3), 100–103. |
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Interesting historical perspective, not only on the field of ceramic engineering, but on the emphasis on "trained men": "The requirements of industry for trained men in ceramics are not being supplied. Eleven American schools are doing useful work in ceramic education . . ." |
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| Publication Date: | January 1990 |
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| Download URL: | http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1151-2916.1925 |
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