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

have an attendance ~ 2.oa0. They ~
housed in seven buildings. one building
i given ND 10 the commercial school.
another 10 the painting trades. another
70 the building trades and the industrial
arts. fourth To TIL graphic srts-de-
signing and the Hke-tine fustrurnent
makers and Iocksuit1s- The wood
workers have a building 70 themselves,
the butchers study ct che city abattoi-
and the gardeners school has its own
buildings and gardens. The yearly cost
Is s225.C00. Tuition OF course. IS fr@-
and the expenses are paid By the city
and state.
Two main facts concerning the Munich
continuation" trade school system
stand out clearly and make IL the most
remarkable Institution OF its kind First
+ its wonderful cOmprehensiveness
That -LebensarschauUng is not a. joke
after all. Other trade schools have made
bovs good craftsmen. but few have even
tried 10 make them, first of all. as tha
Herr Professor said, men" There are
uIentv OF non-technicaI schools with
magnificent ideals. but none OF them -
seriously 10 teach a boy how - spend
his money and how he can keep vic
comfortable And these schools are no
fdvIIic experiment They are praCtlra3-
" efficient. and they are actuallr- max
ing the vorkmen Of Munich saner arrd
more contented citizens
The second great fact regarding thesa
Munich schools is that they are not PIT
marily. government institutions II
should he remembered that the 9.N"o
students who attend them outnuUoer All
the students enrolled at Vale and HaT-
Yard together The weekly hours Of 1T
tendance for each student ara more
than half the average hours Of an Amer
lean university student And this great
,dy- of Young mon is split I'D into more
than fifty highly specialized Depart
ments-
II would cost millions - teach such =
multitude Of things adequately on S11;-n
\ sea 10 if it were rot for the Co-CpAra
lion Of the employers. and this Co-ope-
ration the Herr Dokt0r has won 70 do
gree which W. in America can harfIF
understand For every one Of the trade
schools there is an organization 81 t7H
men who employ labor in that trade.
which acts almost As \ board Of trustees
would do in one of our own un1verF'tlAF-
/ Practically every important business
man in Munich IS a member Of one ~
/ another of these bodies
The union Of employers meets ~ dis
cuss the problems OF the school provides
material for the boys 70 work with at the
/ expense. Of its members. recommends
J teachers for technical subjects, takes A
/ large part in arranging the course OF
study. takes part in the examination OF
! apprentices and elects three representa-
| lives. who constitute a majority o. the
/ board of control which has direct charge
= OF the school The members take a per
! sonaI interest in the work. lend their best
/ employees for special instruction and IN
many cases themselves act as instructors
( on certain subjects
/ To American educators this arrange
nent seems the most striking thing
about the Munich system Dr. keT-
/ schensteiner has not only succeeded in
/ educating his boys UP 10 his own hlzh
standards, but he has educated the
/ tradesnen and the manufacturers % his
+ city as Well and has made them a solid
energetic body Of supporters Without
them his great plans would have turned
+ cut very differently
/ The men who are trying 70 supply
/ America with practical efficient indus
/ trial schools believe mat IN enlisti1g the
/ employers DR.. Kerschensteiner has gone
/ to the very core of the matter They
+ brought him 70 this country 70 show an
/ increduIous people a man wtO has actU-
ally done the thing that they are trying
t 10 DO. When we do have trade schools
I in America that give real. helpful train
/ ing 10 the boy workman they say II viii
mean that the employers have realized
at last that the boys gain means their
/ gain. Perhaps. TOO, il Will mean that ONT
/ trade schools try 70 make not merely
/ TorIzmen. but men-that We have i'm
! ported the LebensanschaUUnE.
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