Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1911-12-21
SUpT. ENDORSES
GRANGE RESOLUTION
Superintendent Turner Endorses
Grange ResoIution--And Adds
Few Cold, Solid Facts for Serious
Thought.

= Payette Enterprise last week give
: me opportunity to say another 50
along the line of practical educat.oi
The Grange passed resolution
with a view to taking some step
looking to the introduction int
the Public Schools of the study o
Domestic Science, Physical Culture
Manual Training and Agriculture"
| say, HURRAH FOR PAYETTF
GRANGE NO. Al.
Now, if something can be done
to prevent this resolution from dy
ing natural death, as has mum
Der of similar resolutions in the
last five years, maybe the Board
of Education can realize its long
cherished dream. Ever since
came to this school system, the
Board of Education has been a unit
in its desire to add Domestic Sci
ence and Manual Training to our
work, but each succeeding year has
found them unable to find the ne
cessary means.
We sometimes say that where
there is a will there is a way. but
when the taxpayers will enters into
the proposition matters are. not simp-
lifted very much. We have had
barely money enough each year to
run the schools,-we have had practi-
cally none to equip the schools with
things needful for efficient work.
In each room we have the teacher,
the pupils and the desks,-that is
about all. Furthermore, our teach
ers are getting from $500 to $4,000
less per month than is paid in Weis-
er, Caldwell and Nampa. And yet
we are not satisfied unless we
get better results with no equipment
than these other places get with
their new and modernly equipped
buildings and expensive apparatus.
In a local paper under date of
September 6, 1907, nearly five years
ago, in making plea for Manual
Training and Domestic Science, /
said:
'Tf we continue to idealize mere
scholarship as the only attribute Of
mankind worth striving for, the
school may never hope for that
cordial sympathy and universal re-
spect which the public school should
merit from the practical man of
affairs"
"Any earnest student of the times
can not fail to see the necessity for
a more varied education which will !
produce stronger self-reliance, great
er determination and power of |
self-help than have been given by
the old methods of education. There |
is a demand for an education that
not only gives scholarship, but pre-
pares for citizenship in relation to
life work. The world has had much |
trouble because Of workers who |
can not think. but it may have more
serious difficulty with thinkers who |
will not work. The dignity of in
telligent hand work should be ap- |
preciated more than IL is. / be. |
Iieve that Domestic Science and |
Manual Training in the schools will /
largely accomplish this end. More
over, the democratic influence of
these two subjects in our public
schools will, l firmly believe, be
one of the saving forces of our Re-
public. OF all the advances in ed
1cation in recent years look with
most hope upon Manual Training and
Domestic Science, not only for in
iustrial ends but for educational
ends.
THE boy will reach his highest
development as a man, who has had
to employ his natural
talents in school, and the crafts
man talent, II it may be so called, is
he pivotal talent in many indiyidu-
ais around which his other talents
must revolye If the result is to be !,
tlliCicul. II tuS PoOA~
school has for its aim the best ed
lcation of all youth coming to it,
4 it is to be in any true sense. the
peoples school, it must supply the
raining the people want"
The Board of Education was then
n hearty accord with that plea.
Since that date several other APP
oeals have been made through the
Medium Of the local press with the
rope of arousing sentiment. But
he sentiment will not do much
,ood unless accompanied with the
means.
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