New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-01

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The State Of Indiana has enacted a
Low, yrbicb il an example TO the rest OF
the Union Of the wrong way 10 PuO
industrial training into the pubic
schools. .,,;.r profeeeor
John Dewey writes of It:
"The law very properly makes pro
vision for part time ane evening
cIassas in other words. for continue
ton schools. But it provides for state
aid only # the instruction IN the"
deals with the subject matter OF Ine
dav employment" or Is complemehtat!
TO such employment. A..
"Tn line with this requirement the
official statement says: 1t is important
TO provide a means whereby inc |VrA,,,
ers who have got INTO "Dlihd al'e!
Jobs NAV be able 10 themselves ~,
more skilled occupations, put SchIo !,
having this aim cannot pc staIe-aIu
1T also rules that training WhICn
air,s at citing workers for more re
',,'i,,o,'ati,e or more skilled trades than
hose i'm which they are actually en-
Moved cannot be aided by the state
funds The classes must give lnstruc-
ron which will actual add TO the
stock -in-trade Of a wage Garner VINO
bas already entered upon the sKillcd
calling ne expects to follow as his NE
WORK r,;rd
Tho intantion OF the law seems 10 ann
at keeping as the life work OF wage
Garner that upon which he has actually
entered. even if he might himself Wisn
A change. For the statement goes on
A practical farmer would not De Ell
Chile 10 enter a class in plumbing or
Humber to a class in ma. ket gardening
in state aided vocational evening
class ..r..or.
state Of affairs is the accidental ana
unintelligent way in which WORKERS,
osnec;aiiS of the Youthful age, find
rbeir iobs. What. then, shall We say o.
Low, u,bicb SAYS that state-aided instruc-
ton is forbidden except IN these acc
doptaIIv selected Jobs? What shall We
Gov of measure which is expressly
construed to forbid aid TO SCHOOLS CIV
ing general industrial or pre-vocatlohai
courses designed 70 enable students to
test or determine their vocational aims
or 10 Law a necessary or nelptui pa
sic for future vocational work Il N
SORT the quotation marks to assure the
reader. that the reductlo ad hDSuruuW
Is not Of my own making
odd the fact that the youth for whom
the law is mainly intended cannot, iof
the most part, possibly he engaged IN
very skilled callings; that they are
mostly engaged in running odd JOBS or
generating machines that require ltIIe
hut automatic feeding, and the ia"
which requires their instruction 20 De
confined TO what they are already DONG
certainly has little 10 do with the pFac'
teal needs Of the workers
Two thousand distinguished educa-
tors voted last week, at the supetih
tendents' meeting In Cincinnati IN Ia
vor OF small boards OF education.
didn't see il in The Globe but
it's so. ., -,
the public schools OF the L. 5. A.
One Of tire arguments against
small Board Of Education IS tns' MI
Rockefeller favors T.
In spite OF my own conviction tns'
Nv Rockefeller is wrong as often "a
srvbodv can be. am forced 70 admit
that according to the law OF probaoili-
ties he must be right once IN way
This - once.
MADAM: There is AT prescott BEFORE
the Cities Committee the Hamilton