The Holly chieftain., 1910-09-16
TO WHAT SCHOOL SHALL We
SEND Our BOYS AND
GIRLS?

In the minds fof parents. particularly those
living in the rural districts. the above question.
like Bsnquo ghost will NOT down. They want
more training for their children than the train.
ing Of the eighth grade. but the only course
open to them is to send their boys and girls
away to the high school, With the hig Oh school.
as now organized they are not satisfied.
First. becaase the high school prepares Tor
college and not for making living. With most
people the absorbing question is the bread and
butter question. A few may retire. but the
mass must toll on. They know that at no time
in the high school course are their boys and
girls much better prepared to earn their bread
than is the common laborer with whom they
must compete and at the end Of the course they
are not really fitted for anything except to enter
college.
Secondly, because there being few or no else
tves offered. all must lake the course as pre-.
scribed or withdraw. All must be ground
through the same mill il matters not what they
sxpec. to bs or not to be through lie. Whsther
fitted by nature to do certain kind Of work
does not enter the question At oil.
!. Thirdly, because training in the high school
more often turns the boys and girls away from.
rather than back to life in the open country
Too often sitter four years away from home.
spent in the atmosphere Of the high school. the
boys and girls feel themselves too good to enter
industrial life,- proud to DO manual labor
= 4 A. Ii. all
clerkship more sttraeiive, Sad indeed is
the plight Of any nation whose people come to
look upon industrial life as degrading.
About five per cent Of the people are m the
learned professions. while ninety-fye are in in.
dustrial pursuits and always must be.
The professional man needs the training Of
the high school. college and professional school.
and it is provided for him. The man in indus.
trial life needs il. too. but cannot always get il.
Unfortunately millions can not dcfer their tech
nical training until after they have had high.
school training.
Our system ot education particularly second
ary. has been maintained most wholly for the
benefit Of the FIVE per cent who 60 into the
learned professions, while little or nothing has
been. done Tor the ninety-hve upon WHICH the
nation depends. Whether or not the nineiy-6ve
per cent are more important than the hve per
cent. tn are at least many times greater.
II many times greater, then it is certainly mo-
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