polytechnicums

Updated: June 28, 2025

"The Swiss and Germans aver," says Matthew Arnold, "if you question them as to the benefit they have received from their realschulen and polytechnicums, that in every part of the world their men of business, trained in these schools, are beating the English when they meet on equal terms as to capital, and that where English capital, as so often happens, is superior, the advantage of the Swiss or German in instruction tends more and more to balance this superiority.

John Marshall Barker - Colleges in America