ABSTRACT
By Kerschensteiner' s very insistence that voluntary courses for journeymen should be set up, he testified to his conviction that it was not enough to train a person to carry out a particular trade efficiently. The worker must be trained to take pride in achievement, but Kerschensteiner saw that it was of equal importance that the worker's training should educate him to set himself an ever-increasing level of achievement. The hall-mark of true education was that it increased the desire for knowledge and for a higher level of personal perfection and achievement. The modern German system of further professional education, with its complex network of courses, tries to ensure that, for those who have this desire for self-improvement, there exists the opportunity for its fulfilment.
