New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-04

or q story book. He is slsnI
..-.-,-o,,e ea5Iong gentleman, Wilh gray
-,,- would b. sad If there Was l'o'
----;osl, Santa claus smile behino
-, "a make them very friendly lou
1,-oDe-Iv h. j. Or George herscir
.tair,ar. Superintendent Of Schools u ''ie
,-.tx 81 Munich. Also he has a I'd' i'"
,--az- heard and n Lebensa nschauuf's'
what is = Observation-Disclosures Ihe9
-e -orpoyrl7at rare in America ne
7.l,snsarss I7auung was first dlscoNereu
L., am eminent German scientist III the
.iehraantb century. and since that uIhe
,.. German home has been complete
,,-,-i,,,,- ono Translated. the word mean ms
--.lzinc a good long look at Things Or
literally an outlook uTnn life. Nhen
,,e would say i'm Nev York He hao
his humps. al right" or. He's stacked
7-r against II good and proper. GER
man would SAY. H has found ms L.
l,.rsan~,aauung Perhaps II IS q sorl
nf combination Of eNpsrjen@e. grit c"'i
mon sense. neiShb"rlin~ss and cehL'iii'
~ hacked INT, one feeble word. haIdtce-
L J. well Z" get rhis rrmly fixed IN
,,ir5 for the Hrrr pok-or has a very
is,.y.. T..lan.an-,h8uuag. like the great
moot Goath,'s and his bows al nave III
-. ,-i.l51uugeu. like yours and
,,.In.. and il MAS L" develop those mat
... r4orr DoI,tor built up the trade
s,.t.,o1e rhst have MADE Munich famous
-- something even better than its beer
certainly un trade schools ia the world
..re more Celebrated: probably no schools
o. any sort are more downright efficient
T-F.. FIa-r pektor came 10 America eX-
1.r-a-~i,- Ia describe those schools, at the
Invitation of thu National Society for
-la Promotion Of Industrial Education
In America 80 hA said in answer To a
question No, cannot state whether
our plan would work in America. You
understand go You not that We try 10
teach something that You have not ii
America That is thoroughness-
True. The Herr Doktor's little joke was
1l"rhiuE strange or lew, but he vas
right. 80 far ~ his schools We're con-
,-erned Al ordinary slap dash Amer
Joan would have To split MS mind open
L. cram Iu IN idea Of what q compre-
leusfve. pajer1laL elemental cosTnic-
7hysmaL SacardotaI Hing Thoroughness
Z. IN those schools.
II Is very simple the Herr Doktnr
went on. In Germany our boys must
- - tho public schools for a least
ClcIlt wears About three-fifths Of them
il Munich complete the course without
having t. repeat the work Of any year.
They are then usually fourteen or fifteen
1oars old.
some Of them. 81 course. go on with
their education at the gymnasium, per
haps At the university. OF the others,
about four-tifths ere apprenticed in the
different trades and one-ffth become
unskiued laborers. messengers and 50
forth Now the Bavarian government
passed law wears ago that all boys
must continue their schooling until they
were eighteen years old. Formerly
these apprentices We're forced 70 attend
night schools once or twice week after
,hair days work. t. study the old, old
things they had studied before they be
came apprentices They did not ike
that Ach. no, They slept.
What We have done in the last ten
0d-S = TINS y ." hF 'tSsts I'll~ll+-L tplt-
--ruatiru schools as w cal them, at
which the boys study the one trade 10
which they themselves are apprenticed.
-har attend one whole day or two half
davs each week. and the hours come
Within the hours Of the working day
They are compelled TO do 50. just as
1Hav We're in the public schools
Earh trade school we manage with
7se advice and the help Of the employers
g. that trade in the city. and the men
who have the apprentices working for
them. Some Of the employers give the
l,ays full pay for the time they spend in
sic school. some of them do not There
are ffty-two continuation schools for
bows. with IN attendance of nine thou
SIND The boys. they do not sleep
Before. the BOYS studied patiently
letters and ciphers al the night schools
sid learned Of their trades from their
masters joUrneymeE or Young work
mon and perhaps something more at
some hasty school which the great en-
lloya-s 81 several hundred men keep at
fneir works. But the journeymen and
-ounE vorknen DO not like boys, and
--e factory schools shape the boy for the
Gactorv, not for the boy. BY learning