Mower County transcript., 1907-03-13
MANUAL
TR.lA|INNG| |.
Helps in Developing Individuality
Interesting Discussion on
the Subject at the Re-
cent Chicago
Meeting.

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United States is devoid of individuali-
ty, that hundreds of men and women
OF marked talent are insists in life be-
cause of faults in the present school
system and that the system now in use
ItlOn are statements DR.. Emil e. Hirsch
to the convention of the department
superint ntendents of the National Edu.
Icational association held in Chicago a
few days since.
DR.. Hirsch spoke of the need Of in
dividuality in the public schools. He
made the statement that the one should
be given the attention of the teacher
in preference to the many The spirit
OF demo Ocracy as generally applied is,
he said, a great drawback instead of
teveling up. s
eve like to think of all men as be-.
ing equal" he said, shut: with the diff
ferent nationality, the class distinc-
ItiOn, the talents and abilities, this can
Ih0tbe applied educati0nally. Wemust
educate the individual child, otherwise
Wemake mere educational mechani-
cal motive power of the man..
"As employed today our system is
more of a 'barrack system of educa-
Itional 'lock-step'. Educationally, in
tellectually and morally men are turned
loose in life without knowledge Of
what they are fitted for.
"Why do SO few children attend the
high school? Because there is Eothing
there to attract the spirituality of the
child. The high school is for the in
ltellectual. There should be more work
1for. the hand. Why do children lind it
hard to break into business after they
are II years of age? Because too many
boys break into it at II, We provide
too much for the intellect and not
enough for the hand. l would also
teach morality in the public schools.
/ Nhe less we moraliZe the more we in
|btall immortality.
lS4asslNs 81 So hat we need III the United States
today are men and women who think
for themselves. It is the task of MAX
ing nation of hundred nations.
Democracy needs leaders who think.
And the schools should develop the in
dividuality."
s<ssIt is the duty of the schools to give
boy a chance to learn the trade that
he has a liking for, and industrial
training in schools has been too long
neglected." said Superintendent Dyer
of Cincinnati. "The schools could be
made more attractive for the thous-
ands of youth in our great cities. To
day majority of the boys who leave
the common schools at tender age
become Ioafers at 18 and criminals
when they reached their Goth year."
Samuel p. Orth of, Cleveland said
that IS per cent of the boys that enroll
in the public, schools of Chicago drop
out before they reach the 8th grade, in
learn a trade. He lamented the fact
economic life before they are II years
|sold. He said that Germany and Eng
land have trade schools in connection
with their public schools, and that the
United States cannot afford to let them
markets.
Our public schools should seek to dis
cover the appetite of children and
then develop them according to their
vocational DESIRES" said Mr.. Orth.
Labor unions have opposed Industrial
training in our schools, but the Ameri-
can people should not permit any or
gauization to- binder its educational
and commercial progress.
u. ID. Harvey, superintendent of the
MenOminee, Wis, schools, said that
most boys leave school at the high
school point and believed that if they
were afforded industrial! training they
would remain.
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