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While we may agree that modesty is a virtue, all
those who have spent a number of years here, admit
that this virtue as taught in Sweden is closely allied
to backwardness and proves a handicap to ourselves,
for the benefit of our competitors. It is true that
Sweden cannot be expected to arrange her curriculum for
engineers to suit the requirements and conditions in
the United States, but I am convinced that the Swedish
engineer, at home or abroad, would profit by being
placed on an equal footing with his professional
brethren in general training.
It is notorious how very few Swedish engineers in
this country, and I venture to say, even in Sweden,
have a reputation as good speakers, and it is positively
humiliating to notice in a gathering of such men that
only a very few dare or care to open their mouths.
One would not expect such a condition in a
group of educated men, but I think the engineers
themselves will admit that my statements are not
overdrawn and that this state of affairs ought to be
remedied before our engineering education will count to its
fullest extent.
It might be inferred from the above that we take it
for granted that Sweden ought to make special efforts
to equip engineers for the United States. No one ever
so little versed in national economy can fail to realize
the loss to a country that raises and educates men for
the professions only to lose them when they reach the
point of usefulness. Sweden has probably, during the
last forty years, contributed to this country a larger
quota of technical men, in proportion to her
population and to her emigrants, than any other country; and
it may not be presumptuous to assume that the work
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