New-York tribune., 1906-12-02
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION |
Discussed at Social Congress, Boston
DR.. GLADDEN. on Family.

Boston Dec Five sectional meetings occupied
the time of the numerous educators retormers
and others interested in social Improvement during
the early part OF the second day OF the Social Edu
cation Congress in this city. To-day's programme
widened the field of discussion to embrace topics
considered under "Self-Organized Group Work.
Special Glasses for Troublesome Children" and
'The Relation of the Library to Social Education.
In all of these departments large audiences We're
present and in some instances vigorous discussion
was a feature.
To-day's session Of the Industrial education de-
partment assumed Importance because the pro-
gramme called for the presentation OF the ques-
ton OF industrial education from opposite points of
view. NJ. W. Alexander engineer of the General
Electric Company, considering the need of it from
the manufacturers side. and John Golden, OF Fall
River. president OF the United Textile Workers of
America. speaking for the workingmen.
Mr.. Alexander maintained that the educational
system had not yet answered the demands of the
industries for skilled hands. Mr.. Golden said that
both manufacturers and workmcn were gradually
waking up to conviction that industrial and tech
nical education for the common welfare Of all.
The labor unions Mr.. Golden said naturally deeply
concerned in ell that affected the earning capacity
OF the working people, were suspicious of the in
dustrial education movement, but they would
go hand in hand with the employers In any effort
that made for the betterment Of trade
dtions
In the department of self-organized group work
Professor Clifton J. Hodge. of Clark University,
spoke of THE Forces of Living Nature IN Relation
to Society and Education" Miss Lotta Clark. Of
the Charlestown High School discussed Group
Work IN High Schools"
Frank H. Beede. Superintendent Of Schools OF
New Haven, was the principal speaker in the de-
partnent of social classes for troublesome boys.
Mr.. Beede discussed the troublesome boy in the
public school distinct from the troublesome boy
in the disciplinary school in the public institu
tion under confinement He placed the greatest
on ha for tha right ind ,,r 81
teacher of broad sympathy and strong personality.
and such one he held. would in great majority
of cases reform the boy without aid from either
the disciplinary school the public institution
where pupils Were taught under confinement.
Horace G. Wadlin. librarian OF the Boston Pub
lie Library, and John Cotton Dana. of the Free
Public Library of Newark, heard in the
ton on The Relation Of the Library to Social Edu
cation
The afternoon mass meeting was held in Ford
Hall, and among the speakers Mrs. Mary
Simkhovitch of Greenwich House. New York City,
and the Rev. DR.. Washington GLADDEN.. of Colum-
bus, Ohio The topic chosen by Mrs. Smkhovitch
was The School and the Family" She held that
the teacher had to be a second mother. and
that while the process Of adjustment between
the Directive poiIt Was cesrthe o coupete deVeI
0pmenf r od the foa of The ehd sc,. Function
the Family and his contention that the
capital defect Of modern society was in the ten,
1uncd4hs s and M pass them over to other her, agsnees
spoke the Ford Hall meeting.
1t was learned to-day that ii not the purpose
of the congress 10 effect organization at this
time.
The day was brought to a close with a mass
meeting in fremont Temple. where four addresses
We're made en- ipdustIal @ edueation @ The SPEAKERS
the American TeIephone and Telegraph Company:
Mrs. Mary S. WOoTnan, of New York, director of
the Manhattan Trade School for Girls: President
z. Benjamin Andrews OF the University of Ne
braska- and Frank a. Nanderlip. of New York.
vice-president of the National City Bank. of that
city: Professor James p. Munroe presided at the
meeting.