Evening journal., 1914-10-28
Shows VALUE
OF Education
Mr.. Miles Says 100000
Children Fail to Get Full
Advantages
WILL SPEAK ON
SUBJECT TONIGHT

There are in the United States to-
day. according to H. E. Miles, chair
man of the committee on industrial
education Of the National Association
of Manufacturers and president of
the Wisconsin State Board Of Indus
trial Education, twenty million chill
dren in the public and private
schools, and twelve million of them,
sixty to sixty-fve per cent. will quit
school by the end OF the fifth or sixth
grade, having learned nothing but a
little writing, reading and arithmetic
which most of them will quickly for
GET
This is but one OF the truths that
Mr.. Miles viii point out in his ad-
dress here tonight on Industrial Edu-
cation in the High School auditorium.
Mr.. Miles is recognized as so high
an authority on industrial and vOca-
tiOnal training that from every indi-
cation there will be large audience
70 greet him. Among the public
officials who will confer with Mr..
Miles before his address are Cover
nor Charles r. Miller, Mayor Har-
rison w. Howell, Samuel II. Bay
nard, President of the City Board OF
Education: Clifford j. Scott, Superin-
tendent of City Schools: DR.. Samuel
c. Mitchell, President of Delaware Col
lege and DR.. Charles A. Wagner, State
Commissioner of Education. At this
conference, the local industrial edu-
cational field will be canvassed.
Mr.. Miles has pointed out fur
ther:
"The need Of vocation education
Is beyond estimate alike on moral,
economic and social grounds. Intel
ligent work is godly. Intelligent
work is the great developer and edu-
Gator Of the individual aid the
race. 1t stimulates ambition, ini-
tiative, energy and happiness.
Unintelligent work is deadening and
sodden Il makes men and women
dull and hopeless, rebellious, anar-
chistic or slavish. The social worth
and standing Of the working people
will immeasurably increase as they,
like professional people, are trained
for their work and in citizenship.
Education in the various States
and more especially in the nation as
a whole, is a headless tumble without
organization or direction at the top.
Only four or five states have Boards
of Education of consequence. These
four boards are composed of em-
ployers and lawyers. We, as em-
ployers, might be expected TO be
wholly satisfied We do, however,
hold that even those four effective
state boards should have upon them
representatives of the working peo-
pie and that their work, as done in
the past, would have been more dem
ocratic. more considerate of th'
great body of the people by far 4
One-third of their members represen
ted this same preponderating mas
OF the people.
Except in those four States. edu
cation Is whatever the countless
kindly, suffering. inexperienced, will
ing school teachers in the several
localities make It. II is what they,
in their threadbare cloak of profess
sionalism, make the uniformed ana
uninterested lay mind believe to be
common practice and tradition--yes,
even down to the tens Of thousands
of little sixteen-year-old country
girls who, each year for thirty-iive
dollars a month, begin as teachers
of country schools with only their
own country school experience to
rest upon, and a six weeks summer
course in a normal school
I'VE need management at the top
IN nation and state, and study and
development There is none now
The Situation is unparalleled in this
report widely-known educator
has said. 1T seems as if we must be
gin wrong and cut and ft for fifteei
wears till we get right" This is tn
old and utterly foolish American
way It is not the way Of the yea
1914 To advocate It OF permit il.
20 contribute TO the infinite hurtin
OF millions of human lives.
NO man can compass the oppor
tunities and accomplishments of sue
strength of organization as her
contemplated Our industries an
our workers. our youth and societ!
must be developed by the linking {
them all with education. with tn
discoveries and promotion of spec
aists IN the schools and factories, th
stores and FARMS"