Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-04-03

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"The wedding out Of the great mass Of
studies Of little general use and leaving
time for such as are Of use to ALL" but
that the blue jeans" shall be educated
too for Manual toll by the addition OF
5000 per year, per pupil to the expense
Of running the schools, by doubling the
total expense Of running the schools,
adding $200.000.00 year to the total
cost. z, ~
This will permit, unhampered, the
graduation of nine white shirt" pupils
out Of every hundred as possible candi-
dates for the university that takes In
only one out Of every hundred pupils
from the state and will take no posi-
tons away from the teachers now en-
gagged in teaching German, French, high
er arithmetic, algebra, geometry and the
higher flights of physics and chemistry,
while it will. they deem probable. sat
isfy the masses by the teaching Of hard
labor to the "blue jeans"
They admit that, Of course, it will
never do to have the white shirt" and
"blue jeans branches taught in differ
ent buildings for in that case there is
a tendency for the purely academic stu
uCAtS ~ AOOh uO"A uQOu Tic INDUSTRIAL
and vocational students" They appear
to think that, If the academic students
are compelled to associate directly, in
the same building, with the industrial
and vocational" fellows, they will not be
proud of their white shirt" distinction
as over the common ''blue jeans" class
eS.
1t would appear that nothing could H.
lustrate better the truth Of the state
ment made by the New York Bureau of
Research that If the schools are to be
reformed, the work cannot be left to
the professionals, than does this lat
est effort Of the higher school officials
of Minneapolis to secure the spending
Of twice as much money as ever before
under the promise that true reforms will
result.
If the owner of a. mill had q manager
who was able to perfect only nine per
cent Of the raw material provided for
him, casting out in unfinished condition
the other ninety-one per cent, even after
thirty or forty years Of experience. the
owner would hesitate long time, me-
thinks, before giving over to the man
ager twice as much money to expert
A1CuI WILL
If the schools were properly conduct
ed with the money and equipment fur
n1shed them now; If the school officials
saw to it that proper text books were
provided instead of leaving that vital
ly important matter to the foreign cor
porations that now control the text book
system Of the state; If the useless lum-
Der burdening the pupils were cast
away; if everything needed were COM
pulsorily taught and nothing useless
were permitted, there would then
be ample funds, ample time
and ample enthusiasm among the
pupils. The pupils would then have
time, both in school and out Of school
to acquire the full power over and Gull
tural use Of the English language, to
properly commence training for the bat
tie of life, to make the school a STEP
ping stone to the life that must fol-
low, to practise the social and artis-
tic graces, to be embryo men and wo-
men and not the helpless slaves of a
public school system inherited from CEN
turtles ago and having but very little in
consonance with the needs and the Gull
ture of today.
Respectfully submitted;
ORA J. PARKER.