Abstract
‘Do you want to know where trades are taught each night to those who'd learn? Again towards Poly., instructive Poly., the self‐help youth must turn. From cutting cloth with a tailor's hand to laying bricks by rule, There's not a craft that you mayn't pick up at the Jack‐of‐all‐trades school.’ (Verse on Regent Street Polytechnic, published in October, 1882.) ‘Few persons recognise the value and extent of the work now done by the polytechnic institutes … Together they give probably nine‐tenths of all the evening instruction in technological subjects in London and three‐fourths of the evening science instruction; whilst their art schools stand in the first rank’ (Report of the Technical Education Board of the London County Council for 1894–95, p. 6)
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