Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-12

really does for the busipless world was
discussed at length before several hun
dred high school teachers of the secon-
Diary department at the First Congrega-
was "The Relation jof the High Schools
to industrial Life" President e. w.
Lytt1e, inspector of schools at Albany,
N. Y, opened the discussion with an
able paper.
Figures and System Help Business
]. H. F'ralncis, principal of the Los
Angeles PPlytechnic high school, spoke
on 1.-THE Function and the Value of the
els declar&d that the commercial
schools werle supplying experiences in
tutions were prone to neglect He de-
clared that iE the girls were trained to
balance up their accounts when they be-
of a household the country would ex-
perience Wonderful Improvement Mr.
Francis said Injunction and value are,
to me closely related A thingmor
value. The v&lue of a high school
Training is measured almost entirely by
tits function, aind that is measured by
and that depends upon. the goods we
put into the high school,
what are tho goods Of the twentieth
hentury high school? The commercial
(course of the high school is not meant
to produce scholarship. BY scholarship
1 mean that which is produced under a
general culture jcourse.
"The world is not so much in need to-
day of scholars as of men of learning
and scholarly heads who are out in the
world engaged i'm other than scholarly
lines.
But in general scholarship standing
the commercial schools is bound to adj
vance. Ten years from now none OF us
will ever seqr OF Of the eoary refs
ing to accredit the graduates of COM
mercial schools.
"The business of education is to reach
down and keep in the schools the boys
and girls who are now dropping out,
and give them something that will IN
terest them. 1t should reach down INTO
the grade school and bring them on 10
the high school, keeping them there
till it passes them on to the college OF
university There is altogether too
little of life in the high school, ana
too much of book training.
Scientific Agriculture Profitable
Prof A. B. Graham discussed The The
Function and Value of Agricultural
Courses in High Schools" Mr.. Graham
spoke at length of the value Oh tte
agricultural courses; He saia IN pa /.
THE decrease in the productlve, P foM q
of the soil the increasing demand Tor a
better quality and greater quantity OF ag,
ricultural products have rendered general
agricultural education necessary: +, Itch
''The county, village or township hlgn
school occupies middle position DetWeeIs
the incidental agricultural exercises or
the elementary school and the techrl Tba
high school is near the people VINO SUP. sup,
port it, and more Immediately serves tneItl
than the agricultural college; Inc Inc S,fe Of
the child that if it returns to the farm
enough science and manual exercises nave
been given to be of real worth o, -
IAN agricultural course should offer as
much for culture as for agriculture; the
work should be but an application OF tne
q schools There is much less necessity for
chemistry than for physics and the do
logical sciences
Manual Training Needed
"There should be manual training
course offering such exercises as are OF
use on the farm or in the home 1t Should
encourage making tests and experiments
at home, not requiring the accuracy OF
those made a. experimental stations and
agricultural colleges. The necessity Tor
keeping records has tendency to estab-
llsh habits of greater accuracy ana se econ
each contribute it's share of rural and ag-
ricultural subjects.
ricultural course should be to. create a
new sentiment and a deeper interest in
rural life. Its val.e must be measured
m terms of citizenship, pleasure and util-
ity. agricultural literature and natural
phenomena will be interpreted in the
light of scientific truth The sklilfu III me-
than the product itself are measures of
value of all industrial education. Drudg-
Cry is elevated to the high plane of work
through the joy of intelligent achleVe-
Gilbert B. Morrison, principal of the
Mckinley high school of st. Louis, Mo-,
presented a Report of Commlttee. -, on y
six Year Courses of Study" advocating
radical changes in some departments of
the present day high schools MI
Morrison spoke in. part as follows;
Encouragement OF Course Advised
THE question of dividing the twelve
years of the public school course equally
between the elementary and the secon-
Diary schools presents a twofold aspect.
The first is educational or pedagoglc; the
second is economic. On the pedagogical
side, while not unanimous, the trend OF
competent opinion is strongly toward such
a division.
''The reasons for a six year course are:
"First-It would give the public the ad-
vantage of being taught by teachers es-
pecially trained for the different branches,
the gain coming from the better teaching
that results from the adaptation of the
teacher to the work for which he is best
fitted and for which he has made special
preparation.
''Second-The departmental plan ex-
tended downward to the seventh and
eighth grades would give the children the
advantage of daily contact with SeVera!
personalities instead of that all day Sc
sion with one teacher which often breeds
ali abnormal psychic atmosphere
"Third-It would give the pupils the adj
vantage of laboratories in which elemen-
tary science might be begun earlier thar
az present.
"Fourth-If in the high school the
manual training shops could be employ