Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-09-18
What Is a High school9
tProf. w. H. Hand. j.

tered the common school branches of
study, at least through the seventh
grade. or seventh school year.
z. To enter a high school a pupil
should have completed geography
and grammar school arithmetic. and
should have a good start In history
snd English grammar. A good start
In algebra or Latin, IL not In both, is
desirable,
3. In a high school such subjects
as advanced arithmetic, English
grammar and composition, algebra,
history and Latin are met in the, first
year OF the course OF study.
a. A. high school Is school for
pupils who have reached at least
their fourteenth year OF age, end
have been to school from fifty to
seventy months, or have done an
equivalent in study.
5. 1t Is a school for pupils old
enough and trained enough TO begin
to 90 some independent thinking in
their studies.
s. A school in which the pupils
are studying for the first time per-
centage in arithmetic, have recently
begun formal English grammar, and
are yet studying elementary geogra-
phy and common school geography,
cannot in any sense be called a high
school. - :,
z. A school of forty pupils ranging
from reader to the beginning of al
zebra, ETC., Is not high school.
8. school OF young immature
boys and girls studying three or four
grammar school studies and Just be-
ginning one or two high school SUBJ
5ects, Is not entitled to be called
high school.
8. Ten and twelve-year old pupils
are not. as a rule, able to graprle
with high school work.
10. A high school is a school in
which the teachers have had train
Ing in some school of higher grade
than village or town graded school.
II. It Is school in which the
teachers have mastered the subjects
they offer to teach before they have
classes in these subjects.
IL. 1t Is a school in which the
course or courses of study are regu-
larly laid down and systematically
followed.
13. A school that has class of be-
ginners in Latin one year, two or
three pupils in algebra the next year,
and pupil in geometry tn, third
year, Is not a high school, nor would
1t be correct to say that 1t has high
school department.
IA. A high school Is one in which
the recitation periods are long
enough to permit some systematic
work. The State Board Of Education
rightly puts the minimum at forty
minutes. High school work cannot
be done In recitation periods of fif-
teen and twenty minutes.
15. A high school, like any other
school, must have in 1t enough teach
ers to do the required work. For
one teacher to undertake to teach a
three-year high school is absolutely
impossible; for one teacher to under
take to teach a four-year high school
Is utterly absurd.
16. A standard high school offers
four years of work to Its pupils.
However, good three-year high
school is better than an inferior four
year course.
II. An efficient high school fully
prepares It's pupils to enter any of
the regular courses in any college of
standard grade, or 1t prepares those
not going to college to enter some vo-
cation with some degree Of special
fitness. A pupil we'll prepared in
two-year high school may enter some
college without course conditions.
That means that that college Is do
ing high school work--either from
necessity or choice.
18. A good modern high school, in
addition to full preparatory courses
for college entrance, offers courses
preparatory to entering Industrial,
commercial and domestic life The
large majority of our high school
boys and girls will never go to col
lege; these pupils need high school
courses fitting them to enter life, as
much as the other pupils need
courses fitting them for college.
10. A good modern high school
must fit few for college entrance,
and must fit all in some degree for
vocational 'tfe and for good citizen
ship.
20. A high school with an adequate
range of courses of study will attract
and hold the boys as we'll as tho girls.
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