The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-30


 transfofmation of energy. An of these principles may be ffiustrated before their eyes in the electrical laboratory and they may thus acquire founda- ton of knowledge which will enable them~to become in time forenen, man agers or perhaps inventors Such school appeals only to the men of more than usual ambition and energy.
 The pure trade school, on the other hand, undertakes to teach not alone the fundamentat processes of trade, but it's technioue. It, therefore lays chief emphasis upon siyins to its. stu- dents such c6htinuous practice as may ness. 1t seeks to reproduce as nearly as possible the jconditsons of actual practice. a4
 ' Conclusions of Commitfee.
 Tt seems clear to. your committee that schools of all the types which have been mentioned here both for youths and adults are likely to be. attempted. and in fact are being attempted in the various parts of the United states The committee believes that all these types of schools are to be welcomed as ex- periments in the general problem which we are seeking to solve Success Tn in- dustriaI training. does not depend upon the adoption of one type of school A measure of. success Is likely to De achieved by all of t1iese efforts and Tn the Judgment of-your committee H ls wise for thoseSwho have to do with industrial. education to welcome durlns inc ne xt decade of experimentation all these forfnsr of industrial. education, whether tleyy be in the form of Q tf4oe school for boys and adults, or 2 traoe school for the workers of atrade Ui- tiniateIy all these efforts will, by the force of educational gravitatton' relate Themselves to the public school system of the country. partly by the ao4pe ton of. these industrial schools. NO see ries of schools can finally survive Wnlcn s. does not so relate itself to the public school educafion.s since the source from which, pupils are to be drawn must m tha long raif, be the public schools. The routnittee therefore. feels that any or these efforts, undertaken, in an finteini- ii gent sympathetic. and proper spirllL is to be welcomed as new contrlpution to the general problem .,. Of ineus'r'ai Perxonnef of the Committee of Tea
 Henry s. Prifchett, President Carne- gte Foundafton for the Advancement or TeachtnR. New York. N. Y.-Chairman.
 Paul Hanus. Harvard University, Cambridge Mass.
 M W. Alexander. General Electric Companya West Lynn. Mass. Thomas NA-f falltetb A(caH Pedakogy. New York Univefsity' New
 Elmer EiIsworthN Brown. United States Commissioner of Education washington.s ID. sC. WillIam Maxwell, Superintendent of Public Schools. New York, N. IT.
 E. D James. President University Of Illinois, Champaign. Ill. L. D.. Harvey, Supertntendent or .t.ni and :. dent National Education Association.,
 Leslie w Miilef. Principal Pennsyl- vania School of Industrial Art. Phila- ! delphia. Pa.
 | School of Applied Science, Cleveland, O.. I At tife recent convention of the Na- | tiopaI Society for the Promotion oI Industrial Education at Atiahta. tue l question of the relation of the United | states Bureau of Education to indus l'tr3ai training came up for discussion. l I1r. Elmer Ellsworth Brown the Com l missioner of Education, was present and addressed the Society at its ari- nual banquet. Speaking on lndustrial Art he said in part: "The commercial advantage in the near future will rest with the nation that cal make the finest combination of science anu art. the finest combfna- ton of inventive skill with beauty Of design and workmanship. Science and will have to work together, to this end Except for an occasional freak or a stfil more occasional genius, our main reliance for artistic perfornia nee must be class, workers and de- sfRners who have ideas focused by training and training backed up by lfdeas. Industrial training alone, and particularly industrial training under teachers who themselves have been narrowly trained anu never educated, will utterly fail to give us that great army of producers in the field of the finer manufactures which will be need ed to supply demands that have al- ready begun to appear. Our indus trial education must be carried for ward in the full sweep Of our great systems Of schooling for intelligence schooling for character. schooling for citizenship. if they would keep from falling into a petty, mechanical, un- productive routine.
 =. At the close of the annual meeting ,I a resolution was. unanimously adopted by the Society recommending to Con-
 gress the enactment of such Legislation as will greatly increase the scope and importanees of the United States Bureau
 of Educatio and will enable it to rem
 der immediate and effective aid in the
 promotion of industrial and agrtcul'
 tural education.
 The Society also recommended tho
 enactment of such legislation as will
 change the Bureau of Education of, tht Department of the Interior to the De ! partment of Education, thus making
 its head a cabinet officer.
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