Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-05
LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL
1t Receives Merited Compliment From
Sacramento Visitor and
NEWSPAPERS
From the Sacramento Union.

From the Sacramento Union.
AT time when high school affairs
are in the air the account given by
Job Wood of the Los Angeles institu-
ton will be read with interest. 1t is
certainly an object lesson in the broad
and generous instruction that it is
within the power of high school to
give to its pupils an instruction that
is broader and deeper and perhaps
more valuable than the mere acquisi-
tion of mental knowledge to which
school instruction is usually confined.
At the Los Angeles high school there
are 1900 pupils who. because they are
assumed to have the power of self
government, have actually developed
that power, and who are able to main
tain absolute discipline amongst them
selves entirely without the interven-
ton of the masters. The principal of
the school told Mr.. Wood that disci-
pline was a matter with which the
teachers had nothing to do; that it
was entirely an affair for the pupils
themselves, and that it was enforced
in such way as to produce STAN
dard of conduct that would be credit
able to any assembly of adults.
1t seems that the principle of self
government in the Los Angeles high
school has been developed not only In
the matter of behavior and discipline
but in many other directions. The pu-
pills, for instance, have organized q
school restaurant and they have done
it so efficiently that they are not only
able to provide an excellent meal for
about one-third of the ordinary cost,
but also to earn profit of $40 q day
for the support of their athletics and
for other suitable purposes. There is
no interference with school work in
the running of the restaurant, as paid
help is employed, nor is there any de-
parture from the business-llke decorum
that pervades every department of the
school life, scholastic and otherwise.
Los Angeles is evidently fortunate in
her high school, its principal and it's
pupils, but the results that are OBJ
tanned in Los Angeles can also be OBJ
tained elsewhere. They may vary
somewhat with local conditions but
the same spirit is certainly waiting to
be called forth everywhere. Whatever
is expected from high school students
will be Forthcoming. Whatever ration
al powers they are assumed to possess
they will display, and If teachers are
parsimonious in their demands the re-
turns will be similarly lacking.
There is no doubt that the opportu-
mites afforded by school life are large
| ly neglected. 1t is not enough to de-
velop the purely mental faculties.
There is an unrivaled chance to call
| forth the business and the social facul-
ties, as has been done in Los Angeles.
Pupils can be taught to show each
other the same courtesy that is so
great a decoration in the world. There
is indeed no teaching needed for such
things. Nothing is necessary except the
opportunity and the expectation. In
fact the high school can be made the
scene where children will play in min
iature the larger part that they will
one day play in life, and if that part
be we'll played now it will be well
played then.
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