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TECHNICAL EDUCATION

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 487 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TECHNICAL See also:

EDUCATION . The See also:term now generally adopted to designate the See also:special training of persons in the arts and sciences that underlie the practice of some See also:trade or The generally accepted Indo-Germ. See also:root is dak-, to bite, cf. Gr. barcuew, and Skt. dac, to bite, tears being " biting " or " See also:bitter " things. The Du. traan, in the sense of See also:tear-drop, was particularly applied to the blubber of whales reduced to oil by boiling, whence has come the tautological See also:English " See also:train-oil," often identified with the lubricant used for the wheels of See also:rail-way trains. For the so-called " tear-vessels," which are properly small vases containing unguents, see See also:LACRYMATORY. " Tear " (O.E. teran), to pull apart violently, to rend, is, of course, a distinct word; it is cognate with Gr. hi pap, to flay, pull off, and the root is seen in Gr. b p/sa, skin, whence "dermatology," " epidermis," &c.

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