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single machine in an endless monotony of stereotyped 
and simple motions, one individual will supervise the 
work of a chain of machines, automatically fed and regu 
lated, requiring, instead of a brainless and emotionless 
automaton, a well-trained mind and a knowing touch. 
Education, instead of dampening the fire of inventive 
genius, will encourage it to accomplish its utmost in eman 
cipating mankind from enslavement to work that is 
merely automatic and from which all creative elements 
have been systematically abstracted. 
What has been said of education and industry applies 
also to education and labor unions, though in a slightly 
different manner. Probably no factor does more to de 
stroy the cohesion and intelligent cooperation of labor 
parties than ignorance or the lack of education. The very 
lack which contributed so much to the rise of unions is 
now the lack which acts as a bar to their intelligent and 
concerted action. But as the workers become better 
educated their power of cohesion will become stronger. 
At the same time, a cohesion made stronger through edu 
cation will become less threatening because of its intelli 
gence. Industry has much less to fear from an educated 
party than from an ignorant mob. And on the other hand, 
a union of educated members will be able to achieve more, 
in a constructive and cooperative manner, than can an 
ignorant mob by force. 
We are now in a position to regard employment psy 
chology in a truer perspective and with a clearer sense of 
its relation to industry and labor. If psychology is not a 
panacea for all employment ills and labor turnover, 
neither is education, fundamental though it is. No matter 
how extensively and intensively the work of education 
is carried on, there will always be an appreciable turnover,