The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-01-29


l. THE PROBLEM OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
While the entire system schools feeling
the changing social and economic conditions there
perhaps field education which confusion exists than
relating training Unfortunately
dusta educational vocational trade training
schools instruction have naugurated
Union either the public school system related
still that the such schools their adaptation
communities and the relation which they ought
the public school system are far from being completely worked
out
inaugurang school system agency of civilization the
democratic state has in view two distinct Objects First to
develop spirit youth teach him seontro
citizenship This what generally understood
as education Secondly it the purpose of such state to
child effective the states life This
vocational education The state must have both ends and must
both also be careful not confuse them
possible turn the elementary and secondary school into
training the vocaon To do this abandon the chief
for which these schools exist On the other hand is hopeless
expect that boy girl will look toward the vocational school
wholly unrelated and separated from the
school In other words the vocational school must have its
and growth school system which, while its main
to educate still educates its pupils into appreciation of
conditions problems Of their countryside The
elementary school must develop the sympathy of the child for the COM
munity lives hopes guide him successfully to
vocational school which shall him for useful life in that
mu To-day the elementary school guides him from
such vocational ideal does not interest its pupils in the trades that
about Them school intended to train for such trades
connection with the school system There door
by which the boy easily from the the other part
of the difficult problem of modern state both to educate for life
producene develop both the general
for vocatons have each system schools sympathetic and helpful
another and yet not to confuse the two
Several features life have tended to obscure this
education training have tended also make
the relation the elementary schools to the trade schools difficult
of these difficulties lies in the great emphasis that has been
placed America preparation for the professions particularly
for the professions law medicine and engineering For these quasi
public cang there needed not only long preliminary education
but theoretical training The preparation for trade
demands the other hand shorter preliminary education with
technical training to give skill in that trade
In the United States all other countries the world lives
the trades the professions For what eat for what
for that with which clothed and warmed depend day
the skill and efficiency those who into the trades Soc
hundreds skilled the trades where needs
physician Nevertheless account the
these professions it has hitherto been the
United States obtain appropriations for the education that
prepares for the professions and difficult to get support for schools
the farm for the dairy for the carpenters
bench, for the mechanics lathe
This hesitation not alone out Of the relative prominence of
great professions to the transit
through which passing Only recently America
England has the school been looked for the training of
the trades Apprenticeship the door through which the boy
formerly into trade Until recently the girl did not into the