Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-25
NIP TRUANCY BUD
BY FASCINATION
Educator Says Every Lesson
Should Touch Upon Making
of Something Useful.
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CHARITY WORKERS MEET
TO DISCUSS PROBLEMS
Manual Labor, Coupled With
Lessons, Conceded to Be
Best Solution.

Addresses on the school problem
We're given before the eleventh annual
meeting of the New Jersey State Con-
ference of Charities and Corrections
IL the Woman's Clubhouse, East Or
anse by Il number of expert educa-
uohalists today.
DIR. James F. IIaney, Of the New
York department of education, spoke
in the morning on Preventive Versus
Curative Education" Dr.. Alexander
humphreys, president of Stevens In
stitute. Hoboken. on THE Relation of
Our Schools to Pauperism. Delinquency
and Crime" and Prof. Meyer Bloom
held, OF the vocation bureau, Boston,
on vocational Guidance"
Other speakers were Professor Earl
Barnes, of Philadelphia, and DR.. Max
G.. Schlapp, director of the psychology
cal clinic, children's court, New York.
DR.. Charles S. Chaplin, principal of the
State Normal School. at Upper Mont
clair, presided.
In the afternoon superintendent O..
j. Kern, of Rockford. ILL.,, gave an IL
lustrated lecture on western Console
dated Schools" DR.. Addison ;. Poland,
superintendent of the Newark public
schools. presided. Among the other
speakers announced were John p. Muir
ray, of the New Jersey State Board
of Education, and Mrs. Howard Crosby
Warren, of Princeton, president of the
New Jersey State Federation of
Women's Clubs.
Or. Charles S. Chaplin said in part:
Modern society. especially here in New
Jersey, has committed us to the task of
hndinS out whether men can govern them
selves. The ship of state has sailed along.
We are all in the crew whether we will
or not. Democracy is the prevailing trend
OF our modern government. Good govern
vicious men,. Efforts to purify the State
and rid 1t of graft must not be directed
at the masses. but at the individual.
There are seventeen millions of chill
dren in this country being taught by
800, 600 teachers. The question is constant
~ being asked why our schools are in
efficient. The public school takes and
Keeps all who come.
We throw all sorts and conditions into
one mill and adapt one course of study
to them all, and expect each one to come
out a thoroughly educated boy or girl,
Mankind has neglected and abused the
insane and imbetile in former days. Now
we are reversing this order and are
shouldering the burden OF the unfit. The
find out what our philanthropies are ac-
complishing. The attempt to fit the bur-
den of the unfit TO our backs is the fun
damental question of this conference. It
is better to keep a boy from being a
drunkard than to tom up his stomach
after a debauch. The expense of taking
care of a sub-normal child Is ten times as
much as taking care of a brilliant boy in
the High School. There Is a great cry
today for preventive education by the in
dustrial Kind. 1t costs 1878 to educate
one child a year. To introduce vocational
and industrial education You must be
willing to open your p~ocketbooks.
DIR. Haney, In speaking on Proven
tive VS.. Curative Education" said in
part:
Man is the builder, the thumbed one;
and thumbed because through long ages
he has been a constructive animal. Early
in his life there rises within him a desire
to make things to handle tools and ma
nipulate material. Every workshop is a
hat acts with irresistible at
traction upon the boy.
This force causes strange revolutions
in hov nature. energiZing the lazy and
retaining the Grant.
Every child as he grows make evil
dent at different stages certain pro-
pensities-he seeks to ~aggrandize him
self, to initiate others, to build things.
to investigate them, to busy himself In
play. These expressions we call in
stincts.
For the gifted boy. able n anxious
to 60 on to become a doctor. lawyer or
engineer. we equip classical, scientific
and technical high schools, but for the
lad itching to do something with his
hands, interested in building and ma
chimes. we open no door save that
which leads out of the school to the
ill-paid desultory training of the fac
tory. Outside the penitentiary or the
r~eformatory, there is as yet scarcely
a single opportunity for the boy anx-
ious to enter a trade to learn its rudi-
ments in any State-supported school.
1t is submitted that II there is one