New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-27
UNIVERSITY CoNvOCATION
.rR MONAGHAN DISCUSSES GERMAN
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
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Albany June %. C Monaghan, former |
Y-,ited states Consul TO Chemnitz Germany, opened
the second days session Of the University Convo-
,ssfon IN the Assembly Chamber His talk was on |
s-sustrial education IN Germany He went over |
,ha general ground Of his subject and then said:
Men OF culture who are the apostates OF equality
advocates OF extending higher education TO all men
are the laborers best friends There is SO much to
scientific training as Rs aFt OF our h pppe sc sS
NAV be best to plunge right into the midst of
the German Industrial system by saying II is ex
eeilent in its results II is composed OF industrial
IscSSicaI schools Because we have built up the
richest Nation on earth without such system;
education is nonsense The question IS not so much
have beer ] have no hesitation in saying lacking
these schools. Germany instead OF occupying her
Europes industrial States. Would be struggling to
maintain The integrity Of the empire -,
who have first class tanning schools. They
si5e with The practical tanner. The reactions not
understood by the were understood by the
in many If an feathers. It viii interest Amer
school at Freburg saxony. is fitted with machnes
invented IN this country while the head director
TsSkee tannery Germans send their boys out to
learn languages and TO study foreign markets. and
than the Romans were in the ancient world.
every step Of her progress The schoolmaster was
a Ludw.ghafen when De Lear and HIS chemists
and converted IT into hundred different colors
FOR the dyes OF this and other countries. Dr. Caro-
iold me twelve years ago that the dream of German
chemists az That time was gTander than that Of
book or aleG IN ; for theirs was hopeless task
The baser metals TO gold but 10 find an artificial
substitute for indigo. Twelve months ago they sue
the United States Government appraisers put their
raj product Of India or Ceylon.
Relative 10 the German e6uca+;on.I zvs+.,, NJ
Monaghan said that no one familiar with the
German educational ideas and methods is eager
70 want them introduced into this country IN their
entirety. Then he said:
! would much sooner think OF setting I'D a king
oespotisn than think OF giving our people Just
malicious or malignant The empires system may
1e Inc Pest system TOT Germany II would not
the kindergarten, the German educational system
fourteenth year An Unfortunate feature Of the pri
mary system is fits division into social classes These
as in later years. Industrial schools, the
m sRny E EneGo@ Of fG 5 four mon
souls has Two hundred and i. fifty such schools Is
worth Of It's manufactured goods to ali parts Of
special schools for boys who are ct work on river
Besides the Industrial there are Industrial art
schools. Art in education answers our aesthetic
70 a thousand things by the magic. touch Of art
great aims bur to teach art as &pIsd b TO n 6ons
RS SO successFullv thai The empire even Eng
land, others and ourselves must follow her.
as e our oWn people but he Is patient ploddng and
tent perse1eng and piodding If he Wishes to sue
coed. Anything Ike an elaborate or even essen
schools Of the empire would require too much
tine and sPaee The only thing Ike them IN Hng
and these are mere shadows
WORK OF TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.
Mr.. Monaghan then spoke OF the technical
schools. their place IN helping forward the empire
AID commercial education. In 1870 Germany had
a per cent Of It's people farms. To-day it has
only 80 per cent, and in this connection he said
that 1t hardly necessary TO add that the en-
pres continued success IS due to the marvellous
METHODS of education Then the speaker said;
The German schoolmaster has done his work
Giscordant States were welded by his power into
The most compact FORCES since The enoiTe
rom q slow moving hard working, almost poverty
cCmmerciaf one, rich material wealth beyond all
that her best and most ambitious statesmen be-
lieved possible
This naper was received with much favorable
comment. and the discussion of it taken up in
q general way by Supervisor Isaac H Stout OF the
State Department of Public instruction, who coin
cided with the idea Of further development of in
dUstrial schools in this country and expressed the
belief that a lively awakening in Americas artistic
sense and designing faculty followed the EXPOSE
ton in 1876 He referred the States encourage
ment Of clay working at Alfred University.
Dr.. De Garmo OF Cornell, asked If the chief con-
sderation was 10 attain practical results TO pre-
serve the democratic idea Of instruction in one
place? Mr. Monaghan declared that both IDEAS
could be harmonized.
Dr. Booth c Davis told illustration OF the
need Of Industrial art schools, how he was unable
- find competent teachers for designing in the
terra Gotta or clay working department, and was
told they were 10 be had IN the country. Hence
came the recent appropriation OF the State to en-
courage this department at his school.
Professor Charles R. Richards. OF the New-York
Teachers College. read paper on manual train
ing He said that the department was getting
away from the IDEA Of mere manipulation, and that
Il was working for something of value. as has
been presented. Manual training, he said. was de-
and execution He satisfied that material
progress being made, though many problems
yet remained 70 be solved,
DOMESTIC TRAINING FOR GIRLS
Mrs. Alice P Norton, Of the Brookline High
School who has accepted place at the head OF
the department Of home economics in the Chicago
Institute and Is also In charge of the cooking
school Chautauoua, read interesting paper
the subject OF her work. Mrs. Norton defined
the applied domestic science the application OF
al sciences 10 the home life. One school plan
which she quoted called for instruction in cooking
and study OF food general chemistry and its appi-
cation to cookery, the location and sanitation Of
the house, application Of art 70 home decoration
the care Of home and family, and the economies
Of The household. This work, she said, does not
ano should not take the place of manual training
for girls
Principal Charles D. Larkins Of the Brooklyn
Manual Training School read a report Of the sue
cess OF the graduates Of his school showing that
fred nd fly how univ