The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-14
Recognition Of Function Of Diff
ferent Kinds OF School
Suggested.
MISTAKE MADE AFTER WAR
Place in State for University
Training School and High
School.

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One OF the greatest needs IN the ed
gucationa1 system OF Virginia and IN the L
other Southern States Is the properSI
co-ordination OF the work Of the va !.
rious schools and a proper recognition. IL
OF the function OF the different kinds 4
OF schools. A disastrous mistake that
was made after the war was the policy
adopted by the higher institutions OF
Learning OF taking students before they
had finished ,thetr academy course
This tended to break down the old S,I
university schools. and made it almost ,,
Impossible 70 establish high schools
a wise policy would have preserved i
and tostered schools Of the type repre-
sented by Gordon McCabes University
school. Vanderbilt University. by
pursuing the right policy. has built up
q number OF such training schools: IN s
Virginia we destroyed most OF those III
we already had.
The loss will long be felt; for. howl
ever great the yalue OF the public
high school. theregis q work to be done
for a certain class OF boys. and per-
OF their development, that cannot be-
done except by the old university
schools. No better agency for the
training OF the minds OF boys and the "
development OF their characters has ~
yet been discovered. The high schools 9E
with their lady teachers and the pres
;ence OF such q pr dominance OF girls z
in the classes, rs essential as these y
schools are in our educational sys-s
tenn, Will never be the educational
force for the development OF cer-
tain vir1le type OF boys that the uni-.sSs
versity school was. y
Unfortunately few Of these schools &
were incorporated and endowed. and
SO they had little chance OF surviving
when the colleges and universities en- Il
tered into competition with them.
It may not yet be too late to save
this class of school to the State, and
LIT is to be hoped that some large.
minded virginians will arise who VIII
endow such schools as Massachusetts
has still. and which Virginia must
have IL we are going to make the most
OF our people by means Of education
and make such people as the vir6tniaS
schools made In the past u n, 3
1T is a great mistake to think that
there Is no room; for the university
training school Il we are to have the
public high sch ools.a "a IEy yield to no one
In my admira tion Of the public higl1
school. but I know its limitations.
There is room for both kinds Of
prove this. but u would only call Bat-
!tention to the fact that Massachusetts,ss Il
Which has the very best high schoolssg
in the country. and such as Virginia
is not likely to have for q quarter Of
q century. has nevertheless the larg ~
iesttnrmber Of the very finest type8ofs
privately supported acad demies for the
training Of boys. No friends. there
lore, OF Southern education will de-
sire to see policy pursued by which
We shall be robbed Of these acads- 4
mics In which the men who made
virginia In olden times were nurtured.ss
with schools that perform q similar;
function with our university schools.
Tho work Of educating people for
5lffe IS an enormous task. and the
state should encourage Its citizens IL NJ
3Iosters and endow all tried means Tor
that purpose. Hence. I say that CO
operation and recognition Of the func.
stlons Of various types OF school A. y
one one! OF the greatest needs In the sout + Y
to-day The success OF individua IN.
stitutions is q small matter compared
WITH v TN the good Of the whole people, ana
s5tLhlpse sa, heads Of institutio who pur
sue g policy which tends to break I
Gown ',1l my one kind of school which d. n
essen g ,eE' tai u to the good Of the whole
iaIkes axe fearful responsibility mon:
themselves. ssss'.s S
'ihes recently appointed Educat lar
;Gommis NJ q: sstoni WI It is hoped d 8 much N
~ -. Virginia towards @ fntroduci, sSs
the wiser olioyi By which . ia fMncsss
tlonF .so.tlF OF each kind OF school now saxist.
lng may be sharply defined and our 81 4
people be made to see that there ID ~
WORK enough for each kind. This WI ~
teno ,.el 70 cause such q Who'll 1esole PUB Il
nc nc sentiment that the Individual school,
will lose caste II It does not Skaan -
It's own legitimate work ana if ~ rs sssS
does not carefully en- force entrance "a.
qu1rement which will Insure its dnino,g
the fiWorl * which Is marked OUT 4 fors7i tss
and " hich5.i T claims to do, lSS5sSls
Even In schools supported byg Stafa
taxes we nov find he policy pursued Nj
8Which has IN the past done i SO much
3harm N the South. ST. The State gives N
money ,N g institutions which Slain to n
he devoted to tha higher learning ana sss #
much OF that money Is used IN staach- NJ
tlng boys and slrts who 3ahould be i,,i8
the local high schoo or In academt es' g
y Know we'll tho arguments by fwhtchsss
these institute ons Justify Themselves M
/ Ills said that the pupils have no hfrhsss
Ssehoo 40 OILS a.t their homes; but the TACT s
sthe most tnau tial men IN the com
mum ty can send their child rem OF stoa
an o. institution Of hig CHER learning ana VI
"a! 'ha the most anhelt'Gss tss
branches. bra these tend to prevent tho Nj
local nigh school from being esta IS. "a
lltshed. & whereas. il these students NJ
We're not allowed to enter the d col
leges& and normal Institutes their IL. .3ss
5fluantial parents would be ntersst eds ssS
in bltsh1ng o high chool. and the HI
high school would be soon sesta 81 hltshed.
But 1t is claimed that some B co IA !. sS
5muntties could not possibly establisi i, IN
shish scnoo Then let such students Ss5
who want to enter colleges ana i,n rs u,
NAL Institutes bsS sent to net chi ortn rts
high schools or q cad demies, awhara n Il = gSs
expenses would scertainly be no srsasSIIr,sss#
than in = col eEo or normal inst y 8I
Thus the alter class OF SchonI could SS
devote itself to doing the ina III sSsS ;s;S
Y .KsSk seAs ss Assa s2S 4. = ~ VI Il