The daily sentinel., 1909-07-06
DENVER NOW OWNED
BY The TEACHERS
Continued from FIRST Fage,l

ANOullnuta from tliSt TdSe.l
and more efficient foreman and su-
perintendents and TO some OF them
it means the kind of scientific train
ing which fits one for the research
work for the discovery of new or i'm
proved Industrial processes. To the
professional man 1t means rather
indefinite broadening of educational
opportunities; to the student OF edu-
cation it may mean any one or all of
these, and very much more.
Except very limited opportunities
for instruction leading to skill in
Industrial processes, practically moth
ing has been done in this country for
the development of industrial educa-
tion outside the college or university
Material for instructional purposes in
the entire field must be organized
and put into teachable form and
made available within the range or
pupils capacity for the thousands
who now leave school at an early age
with no training whatever directly
fitting them for the activities of life
in the industrial world where most
of them will find their work
In the larger cities trade schools
and continuation schools of various
types must be organized. The scope
and character of their work will be
varied and must be adapted to local
conditions. In rural communities
secondary schools in which the study
of agriculture and related lines of
work is the dominant purpose must
be organized But when these diff
ferent types of schools come into
existence, even in considerable num-
Der. throughout the country the solu-
lion of the problem has just begun.
For the great mass of these 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
their living by their hands and they
must undertake to give definite in
struction and training, for al least
the beginnings of industrial effic-
iency.
This broadening of purpose may
find its realization through an eX-
tension and modification of the man
ual training work in the public
schools. Manual training has been
justified because of its value for
mental training, for cultural pur-
poses. and it may be fully justified on
these grounds. but it may
be so modified as to give a very
definite and varied line of training
absolutely necessary for the individ
ual who would become skilled
workman in the industrial field
without in any way lessening its
value for cultural purposes. 1t has
been making rapid progress in the
public schools in recent years and
has approved itself in the public
place in the estimation of the public,
mind. II will occupy still higher
will be given better financial sup
port and more time in the school
program, when its scope is enlarged
so that il may directly serve indus
trial ends.
industrial education is import
ant for girls as well as for boys not
only for the girls who are engaged
in Industrial 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 organization, she disburses them
and must be trained for efficiency in
their proper use. No development of
industrial education will be adequate
that does not make as large provis-
ions for special training for girls as
ii does for boys.
Our educational system is the re-
suit of an evolutionary process. The
demand for industrial education is a
demand for a continuation of the
evolutionary process to meet new
conditions This type of education
will appeal to hundreds of thousands
of youth who now leave school be-
cause they do not find in it that
which appeals to them, or because its
work does not appeal to their parents.
1t will hold them longer in school,
and the more of this work existing
types of public schools can offer the
greater the gain. because side by side
with the new type of work the best
of the old will be continued.
JIr Thaddeus Parker county phy-