The Lamar register., 1909-07-07
EDUCATORS OPEN
BIG CONVENTION
NATIONAL EDUCATION AsSociA'
TIoN CROWDS THE GREAT
DENVER AUDITORIUM.
SEVEN THOUSAND MEET
PRESIDENT HARvEYS ADDRESS
URGES NECESSITY OF IN
pUsTRIAL EDUCATION.

Denver.-Seven thousand educators,
representing every state in the Union,
crowded the main floor of the auditcri-
UNI Monday night at the opening
meeting of the general session OF the
National Education Association.
Educators of national and interna-
t!onal repute sat upon the platform
and with them the governor of Colo
RADIO. In the audience were hundreds
of men and thousands of women,
many of no less distinction than
those on the platform.
The love for their work and the
vision of it's relation to the welfare
of the nation was evident, as the en-
tire assembly gave way to it's enthu-
siasm in the singing of the national
air, America"
| The address of welcome, by Gov
ernor Shafroth rang with sincere cor
diality, as he greeted the N. E. A. to
Colorado. Superintendent Edgar II.
Mark of Louisville, KY, responded for
the visiting educators. He was fol-
lowed by the annual address of Pres
ident Lorenzo d. Harvey upon THE
| Need, Scope and Character Of Indus
trial Education in the Public School
System"
President Harveys address was a
| forceful presentation of the defects of
present methods of training boys and
! girls for life. He declared that the
ideal present methods seemed rather
| to prepare the children for higher in
situations of learning to which the
majority of them could never go, and
which would not fit them for their flu
ture work II they did attend.
within recent years there has
sprung up a widespread demand for
Industrial education" said the speak
| err. II comes from all parts OF the
United States and from all classes of
people.
ITO the farmer industrial education
means education that will fit the boy
| to become a more effective farmer
and that will present inducements to
| him to remain upon the farm: to the
manufacturer it means training that
will give him skilled workmen and
more efficient foremen and superin-
| tendents; and to some of them 1t
means the kind of scientific training
which fits one for the research work
for the discovery of new or improved
industrial processes. To the profes-
sional man 1t means rather indefi-
mite broadening of educational oppor-
tunities; to the student of education
1t may mean any one or all of these,
and very much more.
| "Eycapt yary 1imitad concentrations
for instruction leading to skill in in
dustrial processes, practically nothing
has been done in this country for the
development of Industrial education
outside the college or university.
"In the larger cities trade schools
and continuation schools of various
types must be organized. In rural
communities secondary schools in
which the study of agriculture and re-
lated lines Of work is the dominant
purpose must be organized.
For the great mass of those need
| ing industrial education the existing
public schools, elementary and sec
ondary, must furnish the facilities.
They must recognize that the great
majority Of their pupils must earn
| thoii hNihS ny tutiI hdhuo, anu thSy
must undertake to give definite in
struction and training for at least the
beginning of Industrial efficiency.
This broadening of purpose may
find its realization through an extern
sion and modification of the manual
training work in the public schools.
industrial education is important
for girls as well as for boys; not only
for the girls who are engaged in in
dustrial pursuits outside the home,
but for the girls who find their work
in the home. The woman is the side
partner with the man in the home as
business organization. He furnishes
the funds for carrying on that organi-
cation; she disburses them and must
be trained for efficiency in their pro-
per use.
NO development of industrial edu-
cation will be adequate that does not
make as large provisions for special
training for girls as it does for boys.