New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-19

Melting every normal child regularly 10 attend pub
lie or an equivalent school from seven TO fourteen
AT fourteen the child may now either continue IN
school or obtain permit enter specified useful oc-
unation at home or elsewhere at which he or She may
work not more than forty-cight hours week, INCLUDE
iug-and lust here is where the new arrangement
finds application -ncuding five hours a week TO he
spent in the local vocational continuation school Tor
eleven months OF each year 1t IS intended later 20 eN-
tend the time to seven or eight hours a week. The
law provides that the employer must pay the cmds
wages for this continuation schooltme
Nor did it take the employer long TO discover that The
greatest proitreturning wage paid the boy and gir
9onrentcc was that for the hours spent IN school WITH
out the vocational schooling they were worth less thn
one-fourth as much as Journeymen. Win 1t they are
worth scvcn-cghths as much. 1t was SIMPLY DEN
oostrton Of the old story,-cheap help costly; bc.
paid help cheapest.
4Tbe new boards Of industrial education, both St.e
and local. consist Of three employers, three emro.
a,, and three practical educators. Thus t"o-tAi'
of the boards are directly Interested in improving e
condition either of their class or OF Their employ
efficiency The local schools are adapted "rg'N I'D
the interests Of the industries OF the community lie
course includes English citizenship, business pr..-
49,, sanitation. physiology hygiene, ETC.; SO that tie
Tents shall be not only skilled in the Industries ana
o,,tions but good sturdy, and desirable ptzcns. la
this WAY there is not alone the opportunity olcic-
community for the bcttcrncn OF its own ntcre-
but compulsory dcuand made upon 1t.
THE first school under this newly established ,..-
tnuatjo,l plan was started in my home town, Ra,ir
-, fr,,.eobt hours notice and twenty days OF pr,,
,r.tion Without forcing compulsory attendance "'..
with on. "a general notice an invitation 10 a'i'n,
h evening school was crowded with eager vocational
students. and four hundred additional had TO bee pro-
viled for The youngsters had caught me 'o'' s."
quickly as they would the measles in an epidcmie.
ID % NON
rotb r,.rcnts and employers enthusiastically grasp
,,, ~ the opuortunitv to make capable and efficient
vorIrcn Of the youth who would otherwise find thGr
WY into the great hopper Of incompetence anu lo"
wages, Of human waste.
~It Is the aim 20 secure for teachers instructors who
have learned 10 DO by doing just as II IS intended 70
,,.l thc children Racine started with teacher q
Woodworking professionally trained who soon resigned
In the emergency the position WAS filled by the fore
,,.n Of the pattern room Of large factory He I'M
,r.t,lv discovered that the professionally trained
teacher had been making no allowance in his pattern
work for shriukagc in the poured metal, and that his
r4ttcrns would not draw out OF the sand.
also the board found this workman teacher to
l ON. Of the best instructors on the force No scv
onty- or cightv-loar-a-month professional school
teacher has Il 1.-THE Of such a mans experience or
ability us practical teacher OF the system Of how TO
10 bv doing That is why are looking to the indus
tries for men TO teach the trades.
~Nthough We cannot lcgislate a four-dollar-a-weck
girl into IN cigh-dollar GIRL We can educate her INTO
touhcthat. WccannOt build humanity 20 III our present
school systems: we must build schools to fit humanity
THE so-caci trade high schoos.of the country are
a misnomcr By their requirement Of an eighth
ora e. certificate for admission first Of a they shut "t
entirely the great mass Of those who really need m
,lu.,~il training Secondly, every boy III some -
these ,hoos must take one and half years II wool
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