The evening world., 1911-11-13
DO OUR SCHOOLS
MAKELAzYWOMEN?
IS MAYORS QUERY
In Address TO Pupils of East
Side He Urges More Am
bition to Work.
TOO MANY CLERKS NOW.
Favors Manual Labor, and
Says the Country Is
Short of Toilers.
TOO MANY CLERKS NOW.

to-day in Grammar School No. 2 IN
Henry street, which Is celebrating It's
one hundredth anniversary. The Mayor
said In the course of his remarks:
II am sorry 20 say We are sending
out of our schools now a great many
boys and girls who think they have
been too well educated to work. That is
very. very bad. Every one of o ought
20 be getting ready to work.
III the schools are teaching you some-
thing different from that then the
schools are doing a great deal of harm
IN place OF doing good. because every
body has TO work for a living. And
there 10 no one earns his living more
honestly or who Is more TO be honored
than those who work with their hands;
carpenters. blacksmiths and Transfers.
There are others you know who
think because they went through the
common schools they can only sit on a
high, three-legsed stool all day and try
to write and make figures and do some
thing like that. There are too many
doing that and too few doing something
else. Now ] hope you are all learning
something with a view to being able to
work better when you go out. Drive
teams. help make houses. make streets
and 20 on.
II saw your exercises here mimicking
a country school. 1t 30 happens that I
o TO that kind of n school myself
when I was a boy. And the school hat
I went TO l suppose Is 100 years old. like
this school. There Is nothing but a
little bit OF a wooden school-house. with
y great big stove In the middle OF 1t. In
which we ueed to burn cord wood.
" HASN'T CHANGED IN ALL
THE YEARS.
"And Il II there yet. saw II three
years ago and 1t has not changed any.
Except they have put these city desks
IN II. When I went there the desks
were around the sides OF the school,
house. and we sat with our faces to the
wall. and when you were studying you
had your face to the wall. and when
you went TO recite you threw your legs
over the bench and faced toward the
stove and the schoolmaster. You have
got things better than that here.
I'VE learned to spell correctly. We
learned how to write correctly and
write a good hand. which I am sorry
to say cannot all the time be said OF
the boys and girls OF the public schools
in h city. And we learned how to
read well and recite well. We used
10 learn the proverbs OF Benjamin
TennEin apA suoh shtnos NJ. ,has a.l
We have remembered them all our lives
- good many of us-and they have
done Us a great deal OF good. dom
know whether you are doing that or
net ] am afraid not to any great ex-
tsat. We read the Scriptures and WI
harmed . good deal too. and that helped
70 givs W . literary style. We learned
arithmetic, n we learned It well
There are q lot Of people who think
there q an effort to teach you small
ooyo too much here In he city and
that Il would be to SOur advantage &c
- back to the simpler things. Som
Dsopis ~ that M things we teach
n the city have beer added to ~
0uch that the little boys and girls
end the uag ones. too. are now belni
tAught too many things. The result Il
nat . great many Of them are behint
"a don't learn much OF anything
Children can only learn a given mum
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men they GET o'scouraseo 'hoy "re ~
longer adyancing-they are Just VII
their noses above the water so I
speak, trying to swim along with tn
rest of the class.
" ] had to impress anything upo
the educators OF the city and the teacl
ers. and I had them all In one hall an
could be heard by them. ! would te
chem OF all things to try to get out