Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-11-03
EDUCATE WORKERS.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS IN GER
MANY FOE THE YOUNG.
Cap the Common School Education BY
Fitting Boys and Girls for
the Real Business
of Life.

The department Of commerce and 10
Dor is issuing series Of very interest
ing reports on industrial education IL
Germany. The latest one IL from Dep
uty Consul Meyer. at Chemnitz, ant
deals With primary industrial contin'
uation schools. These schools are scat
tered far and wide. and Mr.. Meyer fur
nishes statistics to show that his branch
of education has been quite fully devel-
oped in Germany. ,....l .,t
The Industrial continuation schools
are the lowest Of the industrial schools
and cap the common school education
by giving the young men and women,
who must at once embark upon the task
Of earning q living. the rudiments Of q
practical education" Attendance In
most cases IL compulsory. They teach
no particular trade, but maintain dis
tinctly general curriculums, and are val
liable to those who have not the where
withal to obtain a higher industrial Cd
ucation. In describing the schools, Mr..
Meyer says:
'In order to offer the most convenient
time for instruction, these schools are
held largely In the evenings and on Sun
days. Such hours are extremely unfor-
tunate, but apparently unavoidable. The
student comes to his work tired from
the days labor and In state Of physical
and mental lethargy. A movement has
been on foot for some time to transfer
the periods of instruction, so far as pos
sible, to the daytime, but has met only
partial success.
''In almost all of the industrial con-
tinuation schools the three great sub
jects of instruction are German, arith-
metic and drawing There are woven In
with these fundamental branches sub
jects that possess value to local industry.
III the larger industrial schools, which
include all the general industrial schools
of Baden as reorganized in 1868, geon-
etry, trigonometry, algebra. physics
chemistry, natural science and mechan.
les are taught in elementary form. In
the great majority of schools these sub
jects are, however, omitted as being toe
ADVANCED
"A very prominent feature of the
work of these continuation schools is the
GIVING ~ ovhibitions which occur in
MANY ror+s ~ Tho country neriod,ca1lv
evorv vaor or baIs-voor The nurnosa NJ
tbeae I,an,avs NJ tho work NJ the school
4 two-sold 70 incita Tho students IN
oroator enort In +ba comnetition IN,
nrives which are frecuentiv offered and
- ,,ooa hofora tha r,,hl,o ond o.roo,o,.
" hefora tbe ennlovers NJ labor exbib,ts
which i,lu,tra 70 tho canacitv ~ the stu.
aont. oSd The character ~ worL dono by
nam In tbe.e evb,hIt,ons orc con.
,ansed Tho host resrlta ~ Tho instruc.
I,on given and Tho character NJ tho worh
,,,n,ovod NAV ha occortod a 9 a fo,r cr,.
Ier;on Nv which n iudge tho efac,enc,
n tbe school and tho cana hili+ieo NJ M
Not univ do Tho strdort.
earn n recognize and onnreciato eacn
,thsr,s ohil,ties ond nowars hut 40 IN
orost ~ tho nuhI,c 10 onIivon.d ond
,tron o+honad
az wos IN tho socord hole ., tho ,ost
orturv ,hat tha question ~ NV, n,,Isora
" ontionaI ot.andanoa' a. tha aanaraIin
,,,str,oI oont,nwation snh ~ .s wo na,snd
~ d. thot nuost;on sonn,s ~ houohnon
S-u"y th0s HucS1iOh cocAho " now oOSh