DOI Heft:
No. 330 (September 1920)
DOI Artikel:Whitley, William Thomas: The Central School of Arts and Crafts
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0071
THE CENTRAL SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS
known crafts school, is apt to regard the done to make their work attractive. At
work before him as typical, and to con- the end of their courses they are ap-
demn unjustly alike the institution and prenticed to firms of recognised standing,
the system. 00000 and the time spent in the school is counted
In the case of the boys of thirteen or as two years of their period of apprentice-
fourteen who join the day technical ship. This is a valuable feature of the
schools in silversmiths' and jewellers' work of the Central School, and its
work, or in book production, there is an usefulness is recognized by the employers
understanding that they shall remain in and the trade unions, who are directly
the school until they are about sixteen, represented in the Consultative Com-
Their courses of instruction cover a mittees that advise and assist the Council,
period of about three years, and include Among other things the boys issue a
not only technical training but the im- magazine, for the writing and printing
provement of their general education, of which they are entirely responsible,
which is under the direction of specially as well as for the woodcuts that form the
appointed teachers. They all seem happy illustrations. 00000
and busy enough at Southampton Row, On the first floor is the school of silver-
and they should be, for everything is smiths' work and the allied crafts, directed
FROM A WOODCUT
BY NORA WRIGHT
55
known crafts school, is apt to regard the done to make their work attractive. At
work before him as typical, and to con- the end of their courses they are ap-
demn unjustly alike the institution and prenticed to firms of recognised standing,
the system. 00000 and the time spent in the school is counted
In the case of the boys of thirteen or as two years of their period of apprentice-
fourteen who join the day technical ship. This is a valuable feature of the
schools in silversmiths' and jewellers' work of the Central School, and its
work, or in book production, there is an usefulness is recognized by the employers
understanding that they shall remain in and the trade unions, who are directly
the school until they are about sixteen, represented in the Consultative Com-
Their courses of instruction cover a mittees that advise and assist the Council,
period of about three years, and include Among other things the boys issue a
not only technical training but the im- magazine, for the writing and printing
provement of their general education, of which they are entirely responsible,
which is under the direction of specially as well as for the woodcuts that form the
appointed teachers. They all seem happy illustrations. 00000
and busy enough at Southampton Row, On the first floor is the school of silver-
and they should be, for everything is smiths' work and the allied crafts, directed
FROM A WOODCUT
BY NORA WRIGHT
55