Excerpt from South Kensington and Its Art Training
The object of this book is to place before its readers a short account of the work carried on at South Kensington in connection with the training of students for various branches of Art industry and of teachers of Art for the Government schools throughout the country from 1837 to 1912.
It is hoped that it will give an insight into the real position that the present system of training students occupies as part of our national education, and also the relation it bears to Continental schools organised for similar purposes.
In a book recently placed before the public, and entitled "Should We Stop Teaching Art?" the author frequently uses in support of his statements a set of figures contained in the "Report of the Departmental Committee on the Royal College of Art' (1900-10), relating to the careers of State-trained Art students, which have been proved to be totally wrong and misleading; thus the conclusions arrived at in that particular work, and upon which an attempt is made to evolve a new system of Art education, are valueless.
It is also hoped that the matter contained in the following pages will prove that a great deal has already been accomplished as regards the successful training of Art students, and that if fault is to be found with our general system of Art education, it rests rather with the public and the manufacturers themselves than with the craftsman or the teacher of Art.
I have to express my deepest thanks to Mr. Walter Crane for the foreword which he has kindly written to this book.
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