The Engineer, the Cripple and the New Education

Abstract This paper is a progress report and states definitely the work that the engineer should do to help the cripple to be independent of all charity. It states how the cripple can be enabled to compete successfully with normal workers in the trades at the present time. It calls attention to the fact that the cripple after receiving intensive education by means of micromotion study is able to earn more than normal workers who have not received such education. The war has made an upheaval in many methods, particularly those of education. After the war the intensive methods now used in our emergency will be used permanently. These methods are not transitory. They will remain because they are more efficient. The intensive education in motion study of the one best way to do work, now being done for the cripple, is the model for all the intensive training of the nation’s workers after peace comes — that they may become more efficient and more productive and suffer less fatigue. The military cripple will thus have served his country doubly.