Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-02
Argument for a Comprehensive Man
ual Training System.
TEE COLORED BOYS CHANCES IN LIFE
Adapting School Courses to Suit
His Environments.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION
Written for The Evening Star.

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proper respect Tor punhc OPINION par
| ticularly in a matter so intimately connect
| ed with all the peoples as public education.
! demands that an exnlanation he given Of
| 49, S,as 20 80. - .s.,.e.t 49,
.he purpose oi tnose VIM advocate lhs
new departure from established methods
| in the matter. of conducting our high
| .ohoo,. ,cl, 10000 .o,o,.r,, ,,o-,, -
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aecepe he" ioeas' anu oi.eh oppose 'heii
| SIMPLY because they are new, ana WONDER
why they did so when their utility has
| been fully demonstrated The discussion of
| tho o,ast;o,, a. a. Irn;+od S+.+., sano+e
e eue9.'on - INC Cii'eo o'1ee' soH"ee
ana senator Gormahs remarks thereon
| have brought the undersigned into promi-
nence as an active advocate Of the new
| svstem and through whose efYorts IN ito
hsha1f tha Sana+a ,,r,,,,aas e.. ~ a,,-o1
oenai Tic oeha.e proVioeo .or an appio-
| prlatlon OF one thousand dollars to enable
| the school board to examine and report
| plans and methods of introducing the new
| system in the high schools a provision
which was, however. lost In conference,
| Therefore IT is prcper he should give
| to the public the reasons that dictated
| his course. believing such statement
will strengthen the cause and make
| the nuhIic demand for its extension IRE
| sistible SAt first biush :" one would saw.
| 7 thought we had manual training in orr
schools? And SO we have. but SO limited
| as to be of little use. since the pupils get
| only eight hours a month NOT nujte two
| weeks' training in wear Now II 10 nro-
| nosed to give two hours or more each fav
| SO as to make # nracticaI az we'll as theo-
retical, and such as pass through will be
| confined with Sufficient nnechanica1 InowI
edge that they Will only need to have ex-
p,a ..i ~ anean Inc iules governing
| up the work.
| Previous to 1880 little attention was
| given to manual training in this country;
oue -. europe .ne system mas long Deeh IN
|
| Sweden and Finland the Slojd schools are
| deservedly popular. There are trade schools
| in every large city of France; nearly every
industry has its special schools. and these
| schools are increasing. not only in France
| but all over Europe. The eminently prac-
| teal Germans, seeing the utility of manual
| training, have probably gone beyond every
| other nation in Europe in extending its
| benefits to the pupils in the schools, with
| out lowering the intellectual or literary
| standing of the German people. Indeed
| during the last twenty years the Germans
have cut deeply into French trade. out
| stripping them by their vast multiplicity
| of technical schools. Every large city in
| the United States except Washington has
| It's industrial school. the result of private
! benefaction or supported by municipal aid
| Brooklyn has its Pratt Institute. Philadel-
| phia its Drexel School. Armour has pro-
| vtded fine one for Chicago. The Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company main
tains fine one for Baltimore. Boston, St
| Louis, Toledo, Cincinnati and New York
| and many other cities have adopted and
are extending the system, since its bene-
fits are manifest to a greater extent day
| after day.
| Some .r A.. o,,
| IL 10 io' pioposeu 10 lower the intellectual
| standard or suppiant the present curricu-
| lum or course of study pursued in tbe
high school hut the aim ts 10 ca ,,on,,,.r;.o
1 ~ h,,,, -, ~ eNPN.a' iAe
.nS "snei oiaiehes mat parents Will be
nv aNr{a -
| enable their children to take the course
| because of the prosnect IT onens to tban,
| of future gains 1t also aims to dignity me-
| chanical knowledge, by Emphasizing the
| fact that it is possible to win equal distince
| ton in those lines-distinction heretofore
regarded as inseparable from the nrofes.
sions. To the colored pupils It offers 20
many advantages that II NAV veil he
| STYLED the new emancipation- n viii oman
| to them a thousand avenues of remunerat five
| employment now closed because of their
lack Of skill to do the work and will secure
| better wages in the lines almost whoJIv
| theirs since they. by their snecial skill
will be able to render better service No
| ore will, 1 am sure, seriously doubt the
| wisdom OF increasing the opportunities of
this class The conditions that confront
them are very different fror, u,hnt a.
| white boy must encounter. For the latter mo
hampering cords renders his knowledge an.
perfiuous. or narrows the field Of HE en,or
| tunities. He has an eoual chance ~ secur-
| ing a market for his wares withont rsSard
| to their quality. To him ali doors orc onan
| he begins the race Of ufa IN annaI $50,
with the most favored. ee1"' 'e' LIS
| The colored how must 70 win succe.s ~.
| trained to win and hold the only f3eid 49, uv
open to him WHY tndnce him To snan1
| four wears In a course of stndv that nv fts
| him to successfullv meat the odvarsa ao,,, uS
| lions that environ hin,e to- a.,o oouu,
orIv is right and nronar wbinh saaI.. % u
| fit The nu5ii that he nav ha.ir a. ?, ~ So
| life nnfler conditions most faunrahio 81 "
him Why nersist IN b.vine 5no bas aie ao5
| several vs,rS learnin. a. So ~" 70 npSs Spend
| mo etc Mhsn rrnhs hi ,me a.. o. ooohkeep-
| Would find emn,aumsnt !, ~. n i've, VI mem
otta;nmantsp VIZ, ~ -. .ne me oI tneir
| IN Iaarn;ro a. 49, ~. Sinpioy tHei. time
oil lives a,,n NJ arg, when oner at
| araatast tnnant;,n ~ anu mus remove the
5risa ga iSIanassa ~ ,r EIlihe, nancy. raise
| t'einaS ~ r,rofass,o anae some should be
| 1919 80 po.essioiai career Is very de-
SarenS mon the rs suSSeSs must evidently