Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-27

a large class of the community is l lost to the whole community. and l that any loss must be paid for in boys sent 10 work before they arc physically and mentally developed, in girls III prepared for their spe- cial work in life. Hloh School Students Should Know
 The Town industries
 The high school should have a close relation to the industrial lie of the town. was brought up in shoe town in Massachusetts, but never heard anything in the schools of the places to which our shoes went, of routes of interna- tional trade, of effects of machinery on labor, of the social effects on the town Of making low grade orl high grade shoes. of the sources oi the supply of hides. of tariffs on hides. of the cardinal principles or i labor union and the economic re ply of the employer. That is- our schools had no reference 10 the main [ industry of the town. If had lived ! in the old whaling town or New Bedford, Mass, l should have wanted the boys and girls to know not oniy | good English and history but the ! oceans Of the world, the homes anu habits of the whales, the methods Of capture. the uses Of the DIE ! fish. his physical constitution, the effects of everlasting. ete. EeW men want their sons education ut te-ly out of sympathy with theI own circle Of life. Indeed, If 8 man wants this. I am suspicious that ms own work has been of little value
 E-a oh heen done then in Massachusetts should now be done in Arizona- II the high school is in an agricul- tural community, the science Oi orriculture-or the agricultural side of science should have special em- ,hasis. It will require thorough ln- vestigation and planning to make this special study of such real scien- tific value that no college can hes itste to accept it as a unit for ad- 1nission As state university has 1 peculiar interest in such a prob 1 lem if might be called in to solve lii If the state university accepts i tho subject for admission. other colleges in the state or territory will find it difficult to refuse it. But the university and high school raust see to it. however. that the student should should have the sub feet in such form that like good coin il shall pass curgent practically anywhere.
 And what is true of agriculture Ia true also of mining. The schools in Bisbee, Prescott, Globe and other
 mining cities can relate physical geography, or geology. physics and chemistry 10 the processes of min ing: the history of mining, the common uses of the metals mined Tn the vicinity. the effects Of rising
 ana faninr market And in the studv Of both agriculture and mining theoretical or book knowledge should
 be and could be, supplemented by freouent study of farm or mine on the spot, and by special study given to those phases of the subject that are peeuliar to the vicinity of the school, such as agriculture by irri
 gatiou. The skillfuI teacher will show the relation of the towns in dustry to that industry in general ! and to general ciyiszation. One reason why so many young people permanently leave their home town is that they know too little about it to be interested in it. The main 1 purpose of the high school is men tal discipline; a secondary but nec essary activity in social discipline and '.sociaF I meau in the larger and better sense. We have churches or clubs for social purposes, but churches and clubs, good as they are. are not schools. Schools are to train the minds of youth and 4 the school encourages the student to dc other things, 1t is with special 1 reference to it's main function tne development of the mind.
 Develop the Equipment of the School Having secured a good teacher by right methods of appointment, it is the business of the community to develop the teacher (note do not say the business of the superin- tendent cf schools) to grve nm proper means for his work, and 10 make a friend of him, recognizing That he is doing a work of supreme inheritance for our children The so. ciaI ostracism Of teachers in some ! communities is both absurd and cruel. We nay them little for eX- eurt service and then regard them ] possibly as social interiors.
 The right sort of teacher regards the tools of his work as more i'm rortant to him than additional sal ary. (We often take him at his word and give him neithcr). r isn't necessary that your high schoo or mine have all the equipment ol the best in the country; but it is necessary not only to our teachers but to our own self respect tna the equipment as far as it goes shall be modern and ample. II we cannot provide full laboratory equip meut in botany, zoolology, physic; and chemistry, provide it for enc ol them, and have that equipment q model. It is no disgrace not to try to do everything; the disgrace is n trying much and doing nOtnlng well A suitable library is as necessary
 to a good school as a good build linc. in fact, Is more necessary. Many good faculty has made good school in out-of-date buildings. Bu such a faculty has in it men and , women Of intellectual alertness ana high professional ambition. N equipment is cheaper and of more constant service than a good col