San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-25
AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.


commendable progress in material
things there are matters connected
with intellectual and moral develop
ment that should not be overlooked
The city prides herself, and justly, on
her educational standing. Year by
year there is decided advance made
IN the efficiency of the schools, and un.
der the system pursued it is evident
that only time is required to make
them all that the national school can
become under existing conditions.
But the ideas of the past do not fill
the demands of the present, and this
city should not be content with
doing we'll along cid lines OF educa-
tional movement, but should take
new ground and make her advance
along new lines, more fitted to the
progressive educational ideas of to-
day. The work now undertaken in
the school room should be reinforced
or modified, or supplemented by in
dustrial school work in some form or
other. If not practicable to engraft
such work upon the present system
then an industrial school as q sepa-
rate educational feature of city school
work should be established, and that
school opened to such of the popula-
ton as desired to avail themselves of
its opportunities and advantages
tor their children. In this practi-
cal age the education of hand and foot
and ear and eye is as necessary as the
education of the memory, and such in
dustrial education will be found fully
as efficient in developing tine faculties
of comparison and reflection and judg-
ment as the work now pursued in the
school room. 1t is a mistake, how
ever, to make any divisions in the
great landscape of education, as all
that educes from the student the ex.
ercise of mental faculty is real educa-
ton, and this applied to practical
things is as much education as in
struction in language and numbers or
else that fills tho curricu"
lum of the public school and
today. While so much
interest is being taken in public
and wisely and we'll taken,
the attention of the Board of educa-
ton is respectfully common ded to the
of the establishment of
an industrial school in this city. A
school in which side by side with
reading and writing and language
and numbers should be taught the
use of the hands and the feet and the
eye, leading up through the education
of these under practical instructors to
a useful knowledge Of tools and the
implements of the various handi-
crafts, until the bent of the scholar
in some given direction Is manifested
in so unmistakable manner that his
real life work is indicated. After that
the manual training could take more
direct and specific line, and the pupil
leave school at the age of high school
graduation actually and intelligently
prepared for practical work, outside
of the few openings that might come
to one merely instructed in the pres
emit routine of school work. The
saving of time and money that would
be effected is apparent, and it would
also to a very large extent do away
with the enforced idleness of so many
youths just dismissed from school.
This industrial education is to be the
educational system of the future. 1t
is meeting with marked success
wherever introduced, and San An
tonic should set an example to the
cities of this state in this as in all
things else, and pioneer the wayNfor
the industrial education of the chill
dren of her citizens.
SENATOR Hale has expressed Mr..
Blaine's position on the tariff bill
very clearly in a recent interview.
The Mckinley bill in most of it's
features is acceptable; in some of it's
features it can be improved; this the
Senate will undertake to do and af-
ter these changes are considered they
will be submitted to the house and
conference asked. Mr. Hale puts
Mr.. Blaine squarely in accord with