The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-07-09
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means of reaching such an end.
BUSINESS EDUCATION
First Session of That Department
Held This Afternoon. >''

First Session of That Department
Held This Afternoon. >''.
The department. of business education
held It's first session this afternoon in the
Minnesota School of Business. l. o. Girls
sy of Albany, N. Y, Is president; j.. R.
Francis, Los Angeles, Cal, vice presi-
dent, and T. P. Twiggs of Detroit, Mich,
secretary.
In his opening address, Mr.. Crissy said
that the work begun this year was, per
haps, the most important ever undert aiken
by the department. It. has devolved
largely on a committee Of nine, which was
selected to prepare a monograph on COM
mercia1 educat ion. The demand for the
four-yea commercial course in high
schools throughout the country showed
that its right to be had passed beyond the
stage of argument to that Of cert a1nty.
The high school commercial course. can
not be modelled on the business college,
Both classes of schools are a, present
need but they are entirely different, not
only in method but in object. Besides It's
training for business. the high school
must educate for life.
A. E. Winship, editor Of the Journal Of
Education, Boston, Mass, spoke in re-
gard to the disciplinary value Of CONNER
cial studies. whatever adds Wgor, poise
and alertness to mental activity is disci-
plinary'' said Mr.. Winship. "D1seipline
is not some mystical intellectually which
never made a revelation as to natures
forces or laws: or as to human nature
and it's intracicies There Is more and
bet ter discipline in running lines into and
through the Hoosac mountains SO that
they meet without appreciable discrepancy
than there is in dreaming over such meas
urements. J. J. Hill Is the greatest rail-
road man on earth because he first car
rfed a. bushel of wheat ts1o0 miles for a
cent and a. half; 1t was the 1plain multi
plication table that made Jim; Hill the
best disciplined man west Of Chicago"
Durand w. Springer, director of the
commercial department Of the Ann Arbor
high school, led the discussion which fol-
lowed. 'jF
H. M. Rowe fof Baltimore, Md, pre-
scented the subject, What shall the pub
dc schools do for the commercial student
and what for the business man wanting
help in his Office and the discussion was
in charge Of T. W. Bookmayer of sandus-
ky, Ohio, and Henry E. Brown of Rock
Island, Ill, william E. Dodgett, Brooklyn,
N Y, spoke of Length and Content of
Commercial Courses in Public Schools
In the discussion which followed c. e.
Stevens. of Cleveland, Ohio, said that the
commercial course should be the same
length as others, witt an additional year
in the high school for special training
in avanced business technique. Short
business courses attract pupils who are
mentally weak, careless or indolent The
| technical studies should not be taken up
until the high school is reached, as the
curriculum Of the lower grades is already
filled with studies that are Of more value
than any technical work which could be
introduced. The aim Of "a commercial
course in the public schools should be tc
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useful and sustaining members of the
business community, and enable them te
intelligently comprehend the workings Of
the complex machinery Of the commercial
world.
J. H. Francis of Los Angeles CAL, Ed.
ward w. Stitt of New York, E. N. Bon
nell of St. Paul spoke on the age at which
students should begin the business sub
jects, when they should be expected tt
complete a four-year commercial cours,
in high school and when not expected tt
complete such course.