The object for
which it was designed was, in the intention of its founders, to give
young people who have just graduated from the higher primary schools
special instruction which shall be at once scientific and practical,
and which shall fit them to become engineers or superintendents in
laboratories connected with chemical and physical industries. To reach
such a result it has been necessary to give the teaching an
essentially practical character, by permitting the pupils to proceed
of themselves in manipulations in well fitted laboratories. It is upon
this important point that we shall now more particularly dwell; but,
before making known the general mode of teaching, we wish to quote a
few passages from the school's official programme:
"Many questions and problems, in physics as well as in chemistry,
find their solution only with the aid of mathematics and
mechanics. It therefore became necessary, through lectures
bearing upon the useful branches of mathematics, to supplement
the too limited ideas that pupils brought with them on entering
the school.
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