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indication of the effectiveness high school graduates the
figures merely suggestion The number said
college, for example, probably ots who will later to
and includes many who will fail continue and complete the
The only school furnishing returns this latter point
that 80 cent of it's graduates during the past five
entered college, and these cent have dropped before
uaon is significant to note the small percentage that have
taken farming 9 Has the high school actually diverted
from this occupation has simply failed to attract wube
by the obvious Appropriateness of it's courses An attempt
made statement of the which these stu
graduated but the replies ambiguous that they could not
sed It be assumed that the Latin claiming 40
cent of the enrolment represented chiefly by those who to
other Schools teaching in the elementary school,
really functional only for part of those who
The commercial with it's 169 cent of the pupils
unted for the 1877 cent of the graduates of the large
os who Office work The English has presumably
most of the rest cannot be said that the various
with the exception OF certain forms of college study the
erc occupations and ery teaching have found in the high
directly preparatory activities sort of unrelated general
far that would if count toward college, has
! it's main contribution
compare list occupations
secondary school seeing plainly occupa
schooling the state with the exception of commercial
ec essentially independent unrelated The breaks
wholly artificial into wholly practical life For the sake of
liberal culture he has learned unfamiliar things rarely
again. The cultural features Of the things with which he
all his life have been pointed out to him. Where there
for vital inter relation of reference and Illustration
each drawing helpful knowledge power
actually exist the alien interests and rigid excusvenes
almost hostile This relation should be completely
led.
w. DEFINITION OF A SECONDARY SCHOOL
authors of this report believe that the secondary school should
phaticay the school for youth during adolescence
purpose to deal proaby with certain stage develop
the individual It therefore, be the institution merely
community it the educational bhght every
d when he to adolescence The intellectual the
school confidence and facility the of certain
pensabe TOOLS the secondary school, the other takes the
just he begins to expand with powre freedom into
Inheritance of the adult and to discover the his
dua social promise and ultimate producveness and to pro-
him. far possible with equipment and training that end
individual under social obligation to develop vocational
hit which, while representing his economic contribution to the
hon fe SHALL if possible be also the medium of individual
This vocational pursuit should spring naturally and with
motive from the soil prepared the secondary Such
ut should be both profitable to society and satisfactory the
should be conceived the largest the pupils
Snay capable So-called liberal culture has warrant and
chiefly the background Interpretation of
(which calls his work" therefore large way radates
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conformity with this dea is clear that the secondary school
organized to deal with normal child should
lac widely varied opportunities for determining the tendency
chd abilities dsposton that it's should include
accidentally treated with intensive thorougness those fields in
all standing at the
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