New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-21
MANUAL.TRAINiNG IN SCHOOLS,
DISCUSSING TECHNICAL EDUCATION.


THE BOARD OF EDUCATION HAS LIVELY MEET
ING-wuAT THE COMMITTEE SUGGESTS.
| Technical education occupied the attention
of the Board OF Education yesterday and protracted
discussion OF tho subject extended their meeting until
evening. Commissioners seligmaD, sprague aud
Tamsen, special committee, In their report said:
This education sintensey practical and 1t will be
Of material benefit To the pupils aud the community and
ought to be In roduced into the schools ~ an cary 1ate
We believe with educators that Manual Training" Is
an important branch OF education that II Is great
reie to the scholar whose mind burdensd with Ord
nary school lessons, ami that enables nm to acquire his
binary lessons more Iapdy because variety OF WORK
is thus brought in that IL new fields OF employ
ment to thousands OF pupils, my OF whom, In orer 10
make living, are cOmDeled to leave school before
completing the nrst Grade OF our grammar depart
ments. ~ can technical education he made part Of
this BY establishing separate schools for manual train
ing by teaching II in our present school buildings
thus making IL one OF the regular studies In all the
We should go TO work tentatively. Any theoretoa
programme which might be laid out would not do.
Practical experience 10 desirable We must gr sduaily
learn tho neels aud desires OF the various sections Of
this city. The superintendent of School Buildings
Informs us that there are vacant rooms In vsriohs
public schools. In some all OF these vacant
We ~ ght leach mechanical constructive drawing
modelling In clay, kiug by means OF hand TOOLS
etc II 1t sn' uld be touni ine1pedent 10 intiodace
rover OF our present buildings. some lofts
nilh lie rentei for that PURPOSE Your COMMITTEES can
decide all the details or the experiment In view OF
what have stated unanimously recommend chat
$4,000 be asked for from the Board OF Estimate and
AppOronmeDt in order to begin the experiment Tor the
male grammar schools.
The girls in schools snoud also receive the oenent
OF more practical education. Elementary cooking
could be aligL to large number of the girls at
parativoly small expense Your committee arc OF the
opinion that twelve lessons ~ two hours each would
suffice We would aso advocate that sewing he MA de
compulsory in elias OF the grammar schools Al
Tor one hour sacR week. II would ao
advisable 10 deliver lectures 10 grammar school
girls on general rules or housekeeping.
Cooking more sewing aDd some lectures on general
housekeeping cOnld be Intro iuced with very little
We ANONYMOUSLY recommend that $4,000 be appro-
praed by tho 30 ri OF Estimate for the purpose or in
ro inoing experimenally INTO of tue female
grammar schools one or more OF the foregoing subjects
II proposed refer the entire matter to the Com
mlttee the Course OF Study. but Mr. selignan said
tsat action must be taken 1T to place tho 100000
asked in budget considered during the
ing Mr.. Galloway asked If tue Board bad authority to
provide for Industrial education in the school system.
opinion OF counsel OF Board read to show
tho Board has full control Of the course OF lies in
schools.
Mr. Colr-T am 10 favor OF doing everything in
school system II seems to have to provide
-or teaching them the rutments OF plain english am
not in favor Of adding new barnacles TO those already
attached To the system. do not think tnis Board
should bear the Of teaching boys to become sea
cap ans, rs is DOM the Nautical school, this
IS .Osant by such appropriation shall oppose
IT, We nave shr TO leach trades to lew at the
pense OF other.
Mr.. Crawford-r very uch surprised at this
report OF u committee Appointed year ago; it
does nothing. nothing but he Oldest Kind OF chest
nuts. Its mighty labOrs nave turned out mouse an
ID favor of tecnncal education and assisted
having lt established the CITY College,
but th.s report tells MS absolutely nothing.
Mr.. Sprague Il member " the special Committed
Wish to SAY that did not come into It until last March,
but nave learned great deal the subject SINCE
Ne NYork is To-day behind BOs on Phllade pha, Louis
and Chic this matter technical educa0n Ii III
behind the age. the members should know who have
used much thunder IN opposing t. We can do Very
little making start, but 10 belitte that only shows
gnOrauce. EveIy knows nov much we Iearnedl
tue public schools aud how tto real good 1t has been
u.s.
Mr.. Word-I do not agree with the gentleman WHO be-
Titles tue school system Alter experience nj many
yeats believe that common schools good as
any that exist. But tnis report find too vague and
general. Why dad the committee 20 TO Chicago Or
st. Louis aud get some t on heir methods TO present
TO Ils
Mr. Holt thought report "a eood outline of the SUBJ
money to tegn ~ Az her year Mould mature
the plans. So being Denlnd this very snD-
ject Mr. Holt said tltt tue workshop In the city College
complete institution Of the kind In tue
United and had secured tile lest results. 1t has
for years Graduated boys above fourteen in tho
trades. Alter furtho. discussion the report was
referred 10 the Committee Course OF Study OF which
Mr. Holt Is CHAIRMAN.
The BOARD adopted a cOndemniDg the action OF
the officials OF the Deborah Nursery in sending children
pt bio schools last spring while contl gOus Sick
prev led I'm tnat Institution. super uten dent
Jasper reported list Of seventy teachers VINO uad
been married since Jsuuarv. So when bylaw went
into ehect providing TN - teachers who married
must tender their Teslgnailous Of the seventy five
and all have resigned Ernest DFesher aud Michael
Eagan appointed school Inspectors OF the Prss Dis
rio and j. Wesley Smith was elected trustee Of tue
twentieth Ward.