The Irish standard., 1893-11-25

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made history.
|SCHOOL EXHIBIT.
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academies grade we'll with the secular
ones of like character, but they have
come more closely into touch with
American practical ideas. The boys
academies and colleges represented in
this exhibit disclose aspects more numer-
GUS and more inviting for youth not 60
| ing to a university than corresponding
secular institutions which are too mar
rowly preparatory.
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL QUESTION.
The school question Of today is the
same, whether in public or religious
schools. The religious schools are mani
testify resolved, if this educational exhibit
be fair witness, to give their students IN
the lower grades all that they can get IN
the public schools, and in addition to it
the religious instruction they hold to be
indispensable, which they cannot expect
to get in public schools Enlightened
and serious Judgment must pronounce
both the systems in need of modification
certain to come, namely, lessening OF
merely literary instruction to make room
for an increase Of manual training, Man
ual training is the American school ques-
ton. The conditions of the problem in
which it is involved apply to all primary
schools alike. We have constantly In
dressing population which must be ssif-
supporting. We have in the soil OF the
country the materials of nearly every
thing that enters into the comfort, the
uses and the charm of living. Yet we
nav at custom houses enormous tributes
+, foreign countries FIR articles OF which
we possess the materials, and we bring
into our own over-crowded cities aliens
to take the highest positions in our
craftsmanship At the same time too many
of our own youth, leaving school with
only a little literary instruction, hurry
into the already over-orowded professions
of law and medicine, insuring continued
mediocrity in both, and assuring for
proportion OF those entering them total
failure, professional and physical. At
the same time also great Rock OF Amer
lean youth rush into the lowest places in
commercial establishments and become
the buyers and sellers of the products of
other brains and hands. France donin-
ates the arts and crafts of the world be-
cause from the moment q child enters
her kindergarten (ecole materneD until
it leaves school without going to uni
versity, it enjoys manual training In con-
junction with literary. The educational
exhibit of France in the Worlds Fair is
an overwhelming condemnation OF any
halt school system, for school system
must be described 40 hale system which
processes to do it's whole duty to child
and vet gives only literary instruction.
All the essays written upon educational
tonics cannot carry to student OF edu-
cational progress 1.-THE of the conviction
IN he had in contemplation Of tbs French
educational exhibit. 1t is 80 orderly, it
lis 40 we'll arranged, it is so convenient to
explore and it is so complete in it's parts
that visits to it at jackson park are at
once delightful and inspiring. On it's
tables. shelves and walls one can read the
chronicles and logic Of French supremacy
in the world OF beauty and industry. No
one who desires to know the farthest in
advance of popular schooling should fail
to examine it. It presents at every point
available material for comparison with
the general public school educational
exhibit near by, and with the Catholic
educational exhibit which is it's next
neiehbor. The American school question
is answered in the French educational
exhibit.
DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE SCHOOLS.
Delay in solving this problem in this
country is largely due to popular con-
fusion Of manual training with trade in-
struction. Manual training pervades the
primary school system Of France, but vt
trade schools (Which they call profess
|sional schoois) are . distinct and concrete
feature of the French school system
Manual training is not schooling Tor q
trade. Manual training isonly the gram
mar st ali constructive crafts. No ono
would think Of objecting TO schild study
IND literary grammar on the ground that
learning i would make him . poet Of
necessity. No one would object 70 the
study 81 geometry on the ground that 9
child learning i would have e. become g
! Surveyor, nor has The human phanom' Z
anon yet bean iscoserei ho would @ OBJ b