Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-19
Novel Education
! For The Workers
Popular Correspondents courses.

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unique school. 1t is a school mainly
for the members of the working class
ana It's wonderful growth during the
past year shows that the workers are
awakening to the fact that they have
q right to the knowledge of those facts
that are vital to their interests. In the
course of year fifteen hundred
young men and women of the working
class of Greater New York attend the
Rand School of Social Science and IT'S
three large extension centers located
IN different parts of the city and study
many branches of Social Science, as
well as English and Stenography. In
addition, a special class is maintained
at the main building of the school
at 40 East 18th street, New York
City, for training workers for the So
c1al1st and Labor movements, the stu
dents of which class come from all
parts of the United States as well
as Canada. And one Of the most i'm
portant lines of the schools work is
the Correspondence Course in Social
ism.
Socialism by Correspondence
The Correspondence Department is
growing as though by magic, having
been started less than a year ago and
numbering now nearly 1000 students.
1t grew out of request from a So.
cialist Part local for a course that
can be studied in a class without
having to. read SO many books" This
request was repeated from so many
places that the present course Took
shape and was written by Algernon
Lee, Educational Director of the
School. It quickly spread and methods
OF handling and teaching it in the
best way evolved themselves. ~
New York State has the largest num-
Der of students taking the course,
about six hundred, Connecticut comes
second and Pennsylvania third. Tween
ty states are represented in the list,
besides Canada. The classes vary in
size from five to ninety in number.
Waterbury and Hartford, Connecticut,
and Reading, Pa, have the largest
classes in size while several large
cities notably Philadelphia, Buffalo,
Syracuse and Brooklyn, have a num-
Der of classes each with an organiza-
ton of the class leaders for purposes
of comforting on different points. Ali
class leaders have the privilege of re
ferring unsolved questions to the Rand
School,
Democratic Education
This is truly democratic education.
for each group of students chooses
the best man among them as class
leader and then, with the lesson leaf
lets as guides, pitches in. The lead
er or teacher discusses the subject
matter of the lessons with the stu
dents, explains difficult points, asks
questions and sees that the lessons
are studied. A librarian of the class
is chosen to take charge of the les
sons, to circulate books for additional
reading and to see to any other bust
ness fthe class.
So we can picture groups, large and
small, each week meeting all over the
oVntry studying this systematic
ccufas in Socialism. The Socialist
Local, the yaeating of the Trade Union
these are the training school of the
working class in methods of conduct
ing their own business. The Glass
Study Plan in the correspondence
courses of the Rand School is becom-
ing the popular university of the
working class.
Outline for the Course
Nearly all the workers are deprived
of all opportunities for studies beyond
the most elementary branches. Many
do not have even these. The work
ers have the right to be fully educa--
ted and the Rand School is graphing
with the tragic fact that unless the