The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-24

ulfttutt N0N NHflnlttIN Nf tnnuH. house
sanitation, caro- Of alex, sewing aud COS.
tune designing, etc,-nnd blessed indeed
would be the family into witch auch a
glri went
But, after all, what would 100 or eycn
200 girls amount to In this vart state of
nearly million honest The other pnppOl
homes would 20 on about as usual, Such
honruinE echool, or half dozen such
boarding schools, would never reach the
vast majority, and least Of all reach thu
c'nSs most needing Y, because these are
boarding school
Furthermore, such school would Mt.
! tempt TO do both tho generally cducatiye
work aud tho more technical work and
could, therefore, do neither thoroughly.
Technical training demands n big outlay
for equipment, while the generally cduca.
ING ING, Industrial work must hhsX u thorough
!leh uliull- G'llrle -ll-nI Win. ~.
The experience In scVrflT ytRtT7 and
abroad hhH been TINT such school SOP
ntNted from nthcr educational institutions
tends 90 degenerate aud soon loses the
rchpect of the letter class Of studcuts.
IN short,
! such school eau no, reach the great
. II ear not dive oven a few of onr
eilh high technical education. except hv
| q tremendous expense of several hundred
y, the history OF these Industrial schools
sNVws that they tend To- Degenerate unless
connected with other educational features,
' Another nhd porhupa most potent oc
all objections IL Tint eurh school because
OF tta helnE separated from the other
regular educational institutions of the
uu~Inie gets the hlea nhro0d that Industrial
! TTninnh ti, something seisa,t,t4 ti,-t ofas4
from regular cdnratcn, ana hence delays
the tine when a null and satisfactory pro.
Vision Tor general industrial education Gun
be made,
y Such school Is also nccdlcssly eN
lirnsiNr whole sct OF nov teachers
and new apparatus for the teaching OF
mathematics chemistry PLY sizes phtsiolp-
~ English etc. must be provided at
cost OF from S25u0n to Soo9uO wear, when
We already have these teachers aud equip.
ment IN our nutMAl pchuol our Agricultural
anl McchanicOl college, Nnd our university,
| anu could eaplly admit twice tlir present
numher or students 10 thcer cotrsce All
ihe money that would he thus rNtratpRdnt-
~ wasted IN providing W new Institution
I SUN instruction us we nov have IN ,hreo
dlfercnt schools, must delay the prnrrns,
nrl cripple our present educational lnstt.
buttons Nv iust that much
nc other plan "a cultknting separately
hoth phases Of the Industrial work would
he met so for ms technical education H.
/ 'onccrncd Ivy opening our present tech
picn school e. the Elrs, nnd strouRthrn
Ing II, especially In those lnrs ndnnted tn
WOMEN, such ny architectural drawing, or
uamcntal designing ,ror hook covers. mana
zineH, windows, wall paper nnd textile fab
rios, ntNl, landscape gardening, dnirvlne
nrhorlc lltuTc, carpet weaving, artistic lace
making ana knitting, costume dcsirnine
chemistry OF foods, ctc.--thls would with
the present large euuinWpnt on hand utVo
us tltstclass high grade technical school
Tor girls and would improve tho one we
nave for boys. and vet cost only fre
tnuushud dollars q wear tn employ two ur
,hteo new professors for this speCial work.
At q rpnsorNAtlNe estimate Ii wouhl cost
tue state over SauO.uOu to huila
separate girls school OF tho sAu,r Grade
that this one would be ut a coat oc only a
few thousand dollars, because of the large
equipment and faculty alrcHdy provide
anu the ala that Is given inc Agricultural
ana Mechanical college 10y the United
states government.
Ihls school would furnish our experts
ana leaders but we need Hlsu To- tralu ur
rank ana Me, II not az thorough scientists,
at least IA the practical duties ~ nc 10
DO t'is, the Instruction must be put at ihcir
homes IN lnoh day schools 40 tnat thogs
ond~ uf children can learn az homo with,
| out expensive years at college.
IL has been shown that equipment * ntt
expensive Tor this and that 1t cnn hr put
INTO the schools without harm to the peos
| eut work there, II only We have tcavnCrs
( Win more general knowledge of the
WORK iheso teachers tor this generally
eduvativc phase ot manual and uonrstic
training, which should be coupled with
The rogulnr school work. can best he gui
ten ny placing department of manual
aud Industrial training az the normal
schools ami the university, whore hundreds
of trained teachers ARE sont ont each Ncav
TO work In tAc schools VI Icxas,
To put first class educational course IN
manual work tor boys In the sam Houston
normal viii ,ost about S3pOn tor equipment
and about $2utn YEARLY expense; Md a
| urst-clnss practical domestic economy
course tor the girls viii not cost this much
No dorntoueH will he nccdcd Mt thV
normal and the present buildings ara
Amply largo to Accommodate extra cassrs
I'm both manual aud domestic work wilt
out crawling out anything taught there
NOW. There wuuld merely uccd ~ he 4 tc.
NrranRcmout OF the requirements NV ndu
ntlun, allowing the students Go mako q
choice between taking vocal ntuslc amt such
other optional stu,ics and the manual ai
domestic training The course of academic
tNiuiug given there uuW Is WA 'tlN the
academic course given In the isuil Indus
t,ial srheol tn connection with the IA nus
TRIAL work The class rooms. laboratories.
library, teachers aud equipment COR courses
iu geography history, English, mdtaemat
les, physics. chendstrN physiology, biology,
mNelc, drawing, ctc are already provided
at tho normpl All OF those would he bned
cd and would cost alamo over SloVNN q
year nul demand AT least a Sao,Vn building
If separate schcol were set NJ.
Indeed, with SaNO a wear TO emploE,
teachers and buy equipment for the added
manual aud domestic courses at the SAM
n,l ston normal, the state would have q
better gcnornhN rducauNe tndustHat schoai
1 Tor both boys nnd girls than could be Eot
I len together cor either glrls on boys I'm
new Institution nt a cost OF S2l,uh . war
Cor running expenses ami SaoWo extra az
the stN-t Tor buildings,
| no nut tho work IN tho university woNla
] he more cxnNuSiNr, aud wnuid rropablN
| have to he ncstppucd mutt moael pFaNhre
! srhoo, N established there IN connection
! with tho pedauostcat department. but this
/ vrrv next year, with SNino az the normal
! aud between Satsn and SlO.cN NJ the Asrt
/ cultural aud Mechanical college and the
! throwing npcn Of thts institution ie girls
! We wonld have two girls ihdNsWiNl s,hoes
( I'm 1Nrxpe. rIther ono Of which would hc
I hcftct than separate mluRtrlal school,
! ana would paw the way Cor manual nnd
! domestic training 90 work Ont Wltbm NV
~ tcn ,rars 10 rvcry city and county IN
Z ,hc STATE ns a part III the regular soho.
Z svs.em - chat mt merely few lruh irTl
glrls would get this training ont ~ W"u'a
1 ANY other plhn would not only y" sfcshA
( whster,l OF tho states money, hut woNN
! cause her 20 lose ths er6hd ophoEthhl,N on
1 tom. strengthen her present institutions,
/ and hiring 10 tho very dCngs 81 the chudrrh
4 ~ rcxas an opportunity, while dcNrmWlg
/ ,br ,ntpae anA ho,ilcs, 10 pFeparo tAem
selves for the practical duties of litc.