The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-07-11
OF PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
Experienced Men Urge the Ncces-
sity of Industrial Training.
Nj Manufacturers EcCOrd

Manufacturers Eecord.
In his address at the commencement
exercises OF n trade school in New
York, Charles isM. Schwab, president
Of the United Statos Steel Corporation,
said that the boy who does his duty
and Il little more than his duty is the
boy who is going TO succeed III The
| world, and that the boy in blisincsa.--
not one intended for the Professions
who starts with Il manual school cdu-
cation at seventeen or eighteen will
get a start that the boy who goes
through college will never catch up
with, other things being equal. Here
Mr.. Schwab was talking Of practical
education as an aid to boys seeking to
be sclf-madc men, not the education
derived merely from textbooks. That
Is demanded by the timca, ami cspc-
ciallY at the South. This was well
illustrated by MIR. ID. a. Tompkins. of
Charlotte, n. c., in a speech III which
recognizing the value Of education in
schools and colleges if properly sup
plcmCntcd with practical training, be
quoted the following as 4 typical con-
| VersatlOn between the manufactures
| till luC dSCltSC yOuLil WHO mas llllSlGt
Il school or college course:
| called in to see if you could give
me a pDsition."
"What can you do?" asked the
manufacturers
"Wcl!, haven't had any experience,
and can't exactly do anything, but
I've had Il fair cllcatiom and I'm will
| ing TO try almost anything.n
" Can you play football?" asked the
manufacturer.
"Oh, yes; very well, ndocd,' an
swcrcd the young man.
" Did you play SO. well the first time
| you tried ?n
" No, sir; had to practice a lot be-
folc ] could do any good"
"I he work III my null requires pre-
vious training or practice, just as foot
ball does. If you WANT Il position,
| education alone Gin the sense Of school
or college cducation) is not sufficient.
If | had a position vacant now you
couldn't take it. You simply need
chance to practice--to work--to ac-
quirc skill and experience"
Mr.. TOmpkins added that almost
every manufacturer has almost always
an opening for a youth who combines
in himself knowledge and Skill, and
that this was true Of machine shops,
woodworking shops, cottonsce,l-oil
mills, cotton mills, fertilizer works, and
| almost every kind Of industry, and
that one Of the important duties Of the
manufacturer was to get rid of un-
necessary applicants for positions who
can DO nothing, and to find men who
have the knowledge aud skill ncccs-
sary to keep factories going.
~ little later President George II.
WINSTON, OF the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College, in his annual report
TO the State board of agriculture, said
that North Carolina had enough pro-
fcsslonal and literary men and enough
institutions TO keep up the supply; that
there were at least 1000 young men
being stimulated and trained to enter
some OF the professions, while there
were less than 800 being stimulated |
and trained by education for industrial
HE, although the people were begin
nin5 to realize the necessity of indus
uial cducation,' and more than 100 Of |
the students of the college were show
ing their sincerity and their desire by |
applying to their college expenses
money earned in farm labor, stock
feeding, milking, gardening, carrcn-
try, machine work, bcll-ringin@, iani-
tors work and dining-room services.
About the same time President Henry
$. Uartzog, Of Clemson College IN
Soath Carolina, was speaking at Edge
field Of the openings in the South Of
lines for the employment of skilled
and technical training. lie said that
he had told his graduating class not to
expect too much of education, by