ABSTRACT
Sir Bernhard Samuelson was an industrialist, educationalist, and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1859 and from 1865 to 1895. From 1867, Samuelson travelled widely and made a detailed comparative study of European technical education systems. He published many technical papers and chaired the first parliamentary investigation into education and industry in 1868 and was appointed chair to the Royal Commission on Technical Education. The marked difference in education in Britain was evident in the laissez-faire approaches to it from other aspects of economic practice. Technical education falls into two great divisions: the education of those who will be engaged in manufactures, mining, building, and similar occupations; and the education of those who will be engaged in agriculture. But many persons beside experts are beginning to concern themselves in technical education, and for them a general survey of the field which it covers may be useful.
