The type of industrial education that prevails in Guatemala is the
combination of general studies with special instruction in the arts and
trades given in the practical schools for girls and for boys. There
also exists in the capital a school of arts and crafts for women where
instruction is given at the same time in the subjects of ordinary
instruction. In the departments of manual arts which are largely, but
not exclusively, attended by boys, are taught theoretical and practical
blacksmithing, carpentry, printing, bookbinding and weaving, besides
geography, history, botany, chemistry, zoology, geology, drawing, and
Spanish language and literature. In the schools of Guatemala much
attention is given subjects of a practical nature, with the purpose
of training competent workmen and artisans. There also exist in this
country a National School of Commerce, situated in the capital, and a
Practical School of Commerce, at Quetzaltenango. In both cities there
are schools of agriculture which admit to their first-year courses the
pupils of the first year of the central normal schools. The capital
possesses also a school of telegraphy, recently founded with the view
to installing in it a special wireless station.