Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-12-13
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
A CRYING NEED
Poor Boys and Girls Must
Be Taught to Make a
Living
NINE TENTHs QUIT SCHOOL
Before Seventh Grade, Says M
Friedman, Head of the
carlisle School.

The crying need of this country
today is the industrial school, to train
boys and girls to make a living, and
not to give them the foundation to
fit them TO enter a University which
they will never see," declared NJ.
Friedman, superintendent of the Car
Isle Indian School at Carlisle, Pa, the
largest in the world for it has 1850
students. Mr.. Friedman accompanied
by Mrs. Friedman are on their way to
the coast and he was interviewed at
breakfast at the Montezuma hotel
this morning.
Mr. Friedman became superintend-
ent of Carlisle in 1907 and he is what
Americans call hustler He looks it.
Without an ounce of superlluous
flesh, with clear eyes and firm chin
he shows poise. power and under
standing. He has enjoyed the advan-
tages of brilliant education Born
in Cincinnati he attended the schools
there and went through the technical
school. Later he took an engineering
course at the University of Cincin-
natl, graduating with high honors.
Later he went to the University of
California. He had twelve years in
dustrial training during which time
he studied closely the statistics to
see just what need there is of indus
trial schools in this country. He
spent three years as head of the in
dustrial school at Phoenix; then three
years as a teacher in the Philippine
Islands. and then two years at Has
kell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas.
If there is any man who knows in
dustrial school work. Mr.. Friedman
ought to.
Ninety Per Cent Quit.
Mr., Friedman said, Il find from sta.
tictics that are thoroughly reliable
that nine-tenths Of the pupils who go
to public schools quit schooling be-
fore they reach the seventh grade
What are these schools for, Judging
by their present curricula? Why to
prepare the young to enter the uni.
Versity. But nine-tenths never enter
The uni3ei sity; they never even see
the eight grade of the school. They
are then thrown out on the world to
make their own living, to support
themselves and their families perhaps.
Are they equipped for this great bur-
cen, this tremendous responsibility?
I should say not What can they do?
What have they learned of the prac-
tical that has a monetary weight?
And yet we know by statistics
again, that 72 per cent of the wage
earners of the land earn their living
by their hands. Here is where the
industrial school steps into the breach
and takes the pupil at an early age
and gives him manual training, gives
him knowledge that shall put mon
ey in kis purse
Even two hours a day taken from
the study of the classics and mathe-
mates and put at manual training is
well spent and we find that it even
brightens the pupil for his other
work, serving as a kind of relaxation,
throwing work on the muscles and
taking it off the eyes, the mind. More
and more has it become recognized
that some kind of manual training is
invaluable to every one but to the
poor boy who will never get the edu-
cation to fit him for a profession it
is indispensable. The manual train
irg or industrial school is the crying
need of the hour in these United
States if not in the entire world, but
especially in this country which is
filling up so rapidly. Is it any won
der then that the boy or girl thrown
out into the world has hard time to
make living? But when he is taught
useful trades he will be able to face
the wolf at the door and do it by soliu
work for which there will be mar.
ket."