Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-07-06
NEED SCHOOL TO TEACH
MODERN BUSINESS
METHODS
Commerce Neglected. Though
Much Time Is Given
to Study Of Dead
Things.
EDUCATORS SUGGEST
RADICAL CHANGES
Present System of Education De-
Ciared Lacking in ESSEN
tidi Things by Teach
erS at Denver
Meeting.

Denver: Colo. July 6.--"To provide
an institution of university grade for
the training of leaders OF trade and
captains of industry with expert
teachers of business culture, ethics.
history. applications of the sciences,
portunity for some phllanthropist
than the endowment of libraries or
the establishment of chairs in dead
language or the search for mummies
and scarabs that are still more Dead
said S. r. Hoover, an educator of
Cleveland, Ohio, speaking before the
department of business education at
the National Education association
convention today.
For centuries the business man
has helped to educate all the other
professions-and supported them at
lterward." continued Mr.. noover.
"Now the dignity of his own, the in-
'comparably larger number engaged
in It. and the keenness of the corhpe-
tition with those OF other lands de-
mand departure from our archaic
system of learning business methods.
and the establishment of an Ameri-
can university OF commerce to which
fpreienelands will soar send their
sons tos learn how the Yanxee does
business. However small the number
who can take advantage of IL. educa-
tion must mean the largest possible
opportunity. There still clings around
commercial pursuits little of the
medieval prejudice which provided
such opportunity only for those con-
ltemplating the professions But the
number of professions Is increasing
rapidly Technical schools have add
ed several to the list. The football
field and the gymnasium have follow
ed the pugilistic ring in providing
| professions If we have the profess
sional football player and pugilist,
surely the professional business man
stands far higher in the scale. For
the professional there must be spe-
cial training. The physicians, lawyer.
minister, teacher, engineer and ath-
lete have presented their claims, and
recognition has been sccorded in spe-
cial opportunity provided by schools
and courses of the most approved
| type. But 1t has been generally true
of the history of education that as
tion toward a commercial career he
was sidetracked with scant courtesy
and only a rudimentary training in
the mere 'hatchet and saw course"
THE greatest problem in education
today is the Industrial training of tho
common people so as TO enable them
individually to give more productive
service" said Homer II. Seerley,
president of the Iowa State formal
school, Cedar Falls, Iowa, in his ad-
dress before the department of rural
and agricultural education which
held meeting today in connection
with the National Education assOcia-
tion. "All other education can be
conducted in groups, but this must be
personal and individual.
Lorenzo ID. Harvey president of
the National Education association.
! delivered his annual address at the
general session OF the organization
last night.
within recent years there has
sprung up widespread demand for
Industrial education.'' said the speak
er. "It comes from all parts of the
: United States and from all classes of
people; the manufacturer, the profes-
sional man, the man engaged In com
mercial enterprises. the farmer, the
educator Industrial education has
! probably a different meaning for each
of these types of individuals and yet
all agree upon one thing, and that
is that it is something not found i'm
any adequate form in our present
educational system.