Charlevoix county herald., 1913-06-28
FORMULATE CODE.
Plan Presented to Change High
Schools to Fit Present Needs.

After a study or the present day
high school, Superintendent of Public
Instruction Luther L. Wright has de-
vised the following code OF fourteen
articles for the readjustment OF sec.
oDdary schools:
First. Course Of study should be
broadened, one route To point towards
the university for the few and anoth-
er towards industrials for the many.
In the college preparatory courses,
most Of the work now offered beyond
the fifteen units should be eliminated
foreign language offered only for those
preparing for college, and that simply
because the college requires 1t. 1t
ought to be possible in Michigan to
get an education in the English lam
guage.
Second. Have fewer academic
subjects, fewer sciences, but take
these for longer time.
Third. Do away with the idea that
a student, especially girl, must take
subjects for which the student has no
aptitude.
Fourth. Provide industrial train
ing for everybody, every day, eyerV
boy in the shop and every girl in the
kitchen; at least until pupil is GER
| tain that lie is TO follow the route
toward the college, this training To
head straight toward life work.
Fifth. Special trade or continua-
tion schools for those who want a
trade. the trades to be taught by a
master workman and not by school
| teacher,
Sixth Break the lock-step for
graduation. The high school Is run
on the plan that everybody may or
will graduate. For the student who
can remain only a year or so the pres.
ent nigh school has little to offer
Give auyOue~who Is willing to work
an opportunity to lit himself for a
livelihood in the shortest time posi-
bic This means special classes,
graduation in less than four years. Ii
means. perhaps, classes started at ir'
regular times. 1t means teachers
who appreciate the situation.
Seventh. LeDgthen school day ano
week aud year. High school student:
are capable OF much work. The Ions
vacation and the short school da,
tend TO create habit OF laziness.
The great asset that a young mar
may bring to his life job Is the habit
of work. The Russell Sage Fountaii
has recently published a Comparative
Study Of Public School Systems II
the Forty-eight States. On page L
you will find this sentence, "As ;
nation the United States has short
er school day, shorter school week
and a shorter school year than any
other highly civilized country in th'
world" But there must be diversi
ty OF work, work for the hand and tn
mind, so that work will be less lik
drudgery than now. We mnst hustl
more and hurry less.
Eighth. Fewer books, more labor
atories. shops and study OF things
and greater emphasis on the construc
tive side.
Ninth. Less written work, NOR
oral, more public speaking: much les
OF written. work intended for tn
waste basket.
Tenth. Study OF modern Englis
classics instead of ancient Englis|
classics.
Eleventh. Run the school primal
lily for the great majority who Ca
never 60 TO college. Give the other
: their fair share of attention, but d
not, as now, let their interest dOmir
ate the school.
e Twelfth. Bear in mind that di
: ferent types of education are require
] for uoys and for girls,
Thirteenth. Make the school to I
r the community and the course {
study TO tit the pupil.
|, Fourteenth. Emphasize the ide
r that the school Is work shop au
| that there is no substitute for work.