Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-03-15
SEATTLE TO SPEND VAST
SUN FOR INDUSTRIALISM
(By G. VI. Miller Head of the De-
partment of Industrial Training,
Seattle Public Schools.)

partment of Industrial Training,
Seattle Public Schools.)
Few taxpayers of a city are aware
of the amount of money required to
maintain their schools nor of what
a large part of 1t is devoted to the
Industrial phase of education.
OF the s1.6OO.OOO used last year in
Seattle about $4,000 was charged
to the department OF manual arts.
The manual arts work, or manual
training, as it is more often spoken
of, extends In the Seattle schools from
the first grade through the high
school Every boy and girl in the
eight grades comes under its infu-
ence throughout their entire course,
and in the high school 1900 or "a per
cent. of the total high school enroll
ment of 4,742, have elected and are
taking this course.
It's administration requires a di-
rector and two assistants or supervis-
ors, one of whom supervises the ele-
mentary work in the first five grades
and the other performs the same du-
ties for the work of the girls in the
household art and science.
The boys and girls take the same
work until the sixth grade is reached,
when a separation takes place and
the girls take sewing and cooking
while the boys have elementary bench
work. 1t is at this stage of its prog
ress and on through the high school
that the manual arts work requires
i a special teacher, a man for the boys
and a woman for the girls.
There are at present 81 such spec
ial teachers employed for this work
23 of these teach in the 20 manual
Framing centers located in different
parts of the city in the grammar
school buildings. The others, 3 men
and q women, are teaching in the
different lines of work which comprise
these courses in the six high schools
of the city.
II is the purpose of this article tc
limit its answers to the foregoing
questions to the work of this depart
ment in these high schools, and fur
ther to only that part of its work
followed by the boys in such schools
Society today makes three funda
mental requirements of every indi
vidual; first, he must be a producer;
second, a consumer, not only of food
clothing and a means of shelter, but
also a consumer of the best of the
worlds literature, history and ar
and science; third, disposition tC
cooperate with others in the wei
being of all, to serve himself in serv
ing others.
The responsibility for supplying
to each individual the opportunit!
to gain these three prerequisites fol
successful living has gradually beer
shifted from various private agen
cies, as they have broken down
under this necessity, to the publlt
schools.
The schools are slow to take OF
all of this program and have largel!
up to the present time occupied thei
efforts along the second line, that o
training consumers, and at the sam,
time giving them some appreciation
for intelligent citizenship. Little ha
as yet been done to make each pros
pective consumer not only an intelli
gent citizen but also a productive
citizen as well.
The significance of the demand TO
industrial education today is the be
lief that it will supply this defect IL
our educational scheme.
The well being of every growinI
boy and girl also makes another re
Quirement of equal Importance upol
the schools and that is that body
mind and will cannot be educate,
separately, but altogether; that in
terest alone awakens thought whic
must find expression in action, if tn
mind is to grow, and that action I
its effects for good or i'll upon him
self and others must be discerned I
influence the will to be disposed to
ward right action.
The aim then of the manual art
work is to make possible such condi
ton In the school as will give thes
very elements for successful living I