The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-01-02

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understood to mean some
thing like reformatory, or school for
detectives. truants or youthful crllnl-
nails. Just how this good word In
dustrial'' went astray from its more
wholesome associations, or how, after
it went astray. it could have been de-
liberately brought back into Good
society" in the Southern States alone,
| shall have to leave to some of our
older brethren in this Association to
explain: but the fact, though surprls-
ing. seems quite clear that while else
where the name industrial school,
suggests a penal institution, yet here
! with US there is not d yestlge OF such
| suggestion, and. OF the contrary, our
industrial schools are attended by the
sons and daughters of the best people
in the land. The excellent school OF
the late DR.. McIver. in Greensboro.
N. c., recently characterized by Al
bert Shaw, editor of the American
Monthly Review of Reviews, as "One
of the finest schools for the culture of
women in the whole world" is a "Nor-
NAL and industrial college," and there
are others Of the name, and OF the
same class, in nearly every Southern
State.
And there is also corresponding
confusion among us as to other related
terms, such as Manual training
school, Technical school, y ETC., and
while it is not to he inferred that hazi~
ness as to these terms is confined to
our section, it seems to me to be in
some ways important enough to US to
make it worth while for this Associa-
ton to appoint a committee on nom
enclature, to study the matter closely
and make a report at the next meeting.
defining such terms as 'Industrial,'
applied t. schools and school subjects,
manual schools. Technical schools.
'Schools of technology. Colleges of
technology, industrial colleges,
TRADE Schools etc. They might
also explain what is an Institute"
| confess that this last is of immediate
interest to myself, since I have charge
of one. We are not to be gainsaid,
however, for we are in distinguished
company throughout the whole coun-
try, e. g.. ''Armour Institute" the
massachusetts Institute of Technol-
gy," and many others, high and low.
| have even heard of ''Female insti-
tutes,'-and male and female insti-
~tutes!' Such a committee as prOpos-
ed might do much at least to set up
standards to govern or direct our flu
ture choice, even if it should not be
able to ameliorate existing abuses. 1t
might also, in passing, define other
phases of institutional activity in ed
ucatiOn, such as Commercial col
leges'' and Business universities. l
therefore recommend the appointment
of such a committee.
, Proceeding with the principal SUBJ
. ject, Technical Training in SecOnda-
nv Schools" it may be said that
Technical training in the sense OF
special preparation for particular oe.
| equations or trades, has no place in
! the curriculum of the regular public
, high school. But manual training
properly so-called. meaning instruc.
ton and practical exercise in the use
= of the hands with tools and instru.
l ments, as in drawing, drafting, work
, in making, moulding, shaping and fin
fishing products of use and of estheti(
satisfaction, as we'll as work in sew
ing, weaving, and the handiwOrk o
home-making (for g~irls)-this kind Of
training should be in the curriculum
: of every regular high school. This
proposition is no longer debatable ir
the country at large. If it still re
, mains with us, it is only because of it:
: later development in our schools, fol
. the movement towards the intrOduc
= ton of these subjects in high schools
, is now quite advanced with US, espec
tally in cities of 10000 Or over. Tn
, small town are recognizing the valu
= of the movement, and are planning t.
> Join with it as soon as economy admit
of it. This addition of ''Manua
training to the curriculum is nc
understood to be for the sake of pre-
~paration for certain trades, nor as al
training, nor as for productive effort
but as an additional proper means