The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-07-09
Goldfie1d Schools Second to None

~ Go|dfeld schools abreast Of the most modern thought and
r $40 in the line of school training, and give the Gold Camp schools
"A 70 none in the United States. The new school board is deserv-
eoncratulation for its action in this matter, as these branches Of
-ao will be of incalculable benefit to many of the local students
.r vears. Not only this, but such practical training will secure
=. schools the more hearty support of many parents.
There ar a great many parents, especially among the families
sickness or adversely have worked hardship, who, while desir
.,mr children to have every advantage, sometimes feel a triae
,.ar that during early school life their children do not learn more of
:, practical utility. The ordinary grammar school or high school
.,n.te has learned but little Of real, practical benefit. The found
-, 70 receive practical instruction, alone, has been laid. Does the
i Girl have to leave school at this time, he or she must enter
business college, or a manual training school, or serve a long,
-,nrs and unremunerative apprenticeship at one of the trades be
uo.uv fitted to battle with life-to be other than a drudge.
us r. remedy this that all over the land students of pedagogics
recommending that practical utility courses he added to the
urieulum of the lower grade schools, and school boards have SO
~ ssn the economic Importance of the step that within the last
uo.rs instruction along the lines just added to the Goldheld school
,nxesh has been added to the foremost schools all over the land
The girl. in school, at a time when she is interested IN such tnngs'
taught the elements of sewing, cooking, preparation IL iooos' II
On and at the same time she can learn senography, Wpe"rlths'
,uhteeninr. etc. so that, by studious application at home carter leaV'
=, school she can at once place herself in the way OF earning a COM
e~ herself. at least. She is also fitted to help relieve her
,otber of much of the household drudgery. and will be anxious u put
MO Draetical use some of the things she has learned at school. u
- ,rr find that there is a difference in theory and actual
fourSe, SIT VII hn' eh"e
:. - axtent. and will all the sooner learn the proper applea-
ton of theory to practice.
The boy. o the other hand, will before leaving the grammar
.vade or the high school, be fitting himself for office work N VIII oe
earning the S of tools, and as a rule he Will become 50 : -
the work, especially in woodworking, that 1t Will take 0o d h''
while after leaving school for him to make real money o hmsen
lie will never be helpless.
In many eastern towns, the manual training schooi nd soiVeo .
notlou that probation courts, schools of correction, ETC., have not
~ MI 1 49,, who 6pdc tha after school, and between
school terms he has nothing to do but to get into mischief ol'eh
h.rnhus and 90 often guided by older boys into real righteousness
hsh an tho how who gives his elders worry and trouble. Actual eN-
perience has shown that when these boys gwen a 81 SCI u o"'s
and a workbench, and taught to turn that excess spirit mo no'
creation, he is an enthusiast. In fact, In many L N ~ ''eA :"
has been found advisable to keep the shops open lae III Tue i.ein'
ana avon for . tim at night. and encourage the boys to use their set
exarcsas i, the construction of small things OF actual ntlhty. or
instance, in Chicago the writer knows one family where there are
,hs bvs ~ in couepe-but who, during their last years in
Grammar and high school, did steady work in the shops, furnishing
their own material. but turning out excellent bits OF furniture cha'rs'
tablea, settees, and so on. which today occupy honoreo piaces h'
only in their own 'sden' but throughout the house n writer ~"
lag college put in three years IN the shops Oh HIS ""es' I'M
never lost his love for work with tools, and mas 'o"no Ncene
recreation in doing cabinet work at home resting noth minu "' o0s
herewith The how is essentially a creative animal, and there is never
any urging required to have the boy do ms required eAeio''' /"
shops. He ma sbirk when it comes to his history, his grammar his
mathematics and his physiology, but he does not snirR "hen /" 'o"''
to making things with tools. In fact the most trouble III
usually have in this line IS in holding the young hopeI" oacA = T" -
ing too fast.
In the homes for hayward boys today, manual training ana N
teaching OF applied arts IS the panaeea for wild spirits ~ run
these homes are being daily turned out fine specimens o. cut INV
physical manhood each with his hand and mind trained to some Pa'h
dusefulness. Go to one of these schools and You find every boy Duss'
well behaved, a par, in his little kingdom and bearing n Pr' VIII
dignity He is also given time to play, and encouraged III 'aAins Up
amly sports. Pure "book larnin' . is $ disguised that ne takes J"
WILLINGLY as he 10 shoyn ;ts relation to making things which latter