Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-01-29

l. THE PROBLEM OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
While the entire system of schools the United States is feeling
the changing social and economic conditions there is
perhaps field Of education in which confusion exists than in
that relating vocational training designated Unfortunately in
training Within the last ten
schools for trade instruction have been nauguaed in many
the Union either part of the public school system related
still true that the Of such schools their adaptation
to the needs of their communities and the relation which they ought
to the public school system from being completely worked
In nauguratng system agency
distinct Objects First to
the mind the spirit the youth teach him con
thus to fit him for citizenship This what generally understood
education Secondly is the Of such state to fit each
child become effective unit the states life This is
education The must have both ends and must
them BOTH but must also careful not to confuse Them
possible the elementary secondary school into
places for the vans To do this to abandon the chief
purpose exist the other hand hopeless
expect girl will look toward the vocational school
long wholly unrelated to and separated from the
school system In other words the vocational school must have its
roots and growth in school system which, while its main
to educate still eduaes its pupils into appreciation of
conditions problems their countryside The
elementary school must develop the sympathy the child for the
munty which he lives if it hopes guide him successfully
vocational school which shall him for useful life that
muniy To-day the elementary school guides him from
such vocational IDEAL does not interest its pupils the trades that
they about Them and school intended to train for such trades
has connection with the school system There door
by which the boy easily from the the other
of the difficult problem of modern state both to educate for life
prouctveness develop both the
system schools for citizenship and of special schools
for voaons have each system schools sympathetic and helpful
to another and yet not to confuse the two
Several features of American life have tended obscure this
relation between education training
the relation the elementary schools the trade schools difficult
these difficulties great emphasis that has
placed America preparation for the
for the professions of medicine and engineering For these quasi
public cangs there needed only preliminary education
but theoretical The preparation for
demands the other hand shorter preliminary education with
technical training to give skill in that trade.
In the United States, all other the world
the trades not the professions For what eat for what
which
by the skill efficiency those who into the trades Soc
ETY. needs hundreds of skilled in the trades where needs
Nevertheless of the
United obtain the education that
for the professions and difficult to get support for schools
that aim to train the the dairy for the carpenters
bench, or for the mechanics lathe.
This hesitation arises not alone out Of the relative of
the great to the economic transit
ton through which Only recently in America
and England has the school been looked the
for the trades Apprenticeship the door through which the boy
formerly Until recently the girl did into the