New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-01
Mrs. Fernandez Points Out
Vocational Benefits for
Children.
TEACHERS LEAVE
QUESTION DELAYED
Appointment Of Married Women
to School Posts Not
Yet Settled.
BY HENRIETTA RODMAN.


agree with Superintendent Ettinger
that the Gary system Of education does
not give adequate pre-voestionsl train
ing.
at is quite trueP said Mrs. Fernsn-
dez, chat the Gary shops are not or
gained on trade lines. The youngsters
make great variety OF things, as they
need them In their different activities
on the playground or In the class
rooms. But they make these things in
small quantities.
at Is easy 70 understand that By
this variety of work they develop voes-
tional intelligence, familiarity with
tools and processes, but they do nos
develop q high degree Of skin In o
particular process.
"Such a development Of skill 10 vo-
cstional, and not pre-vocational. II re-
quires specialization, which should not
be permitted for children under four
teen, and it fts for single process
which may soon be displaced by the
changes in the industry, leaving the
worker helpless.
"The varied activities OF the Writ
shops are the best pre-vocational train
ing possible. They should be supple
mented by study Of typical machines
used in the different industries, which
illustrate the fundamental processes
of the industries.
"An understanding OF these process
es would enable the worker to adapt
himself easily TO new machines as they
are introduced. lie would become
master of machines no longer the
helpless victim OF industrial develop
ment"
"The study OF fundamental processes
Of industry and OF typical machines Is
the logical bridge from the Writ shops
to the Schneider cooperative classes"
two members Of the Board of Educa-
ton agreed yesterday.
"The study Of industries which Mrs.
Fernandez has made should be contin-
ued under the auspices of the Board
of Education. We are waiting for Mr..
Churchill's appointment of commit
tee to look into this matter"
The appointment of this committee
was authorized eleven months ago.
o, Efficiency! How many delays arc
permitted in thy name?
Do you know that there are a. least
$50 schools in which the pupils have
some form Of self-government?
Do you know that there are not A.
teen schools in which the teachers have
any form of self-government?
Speaking again Of efficiency, on juno
"a, 1914, a committee Of the Teachers
Council, of which Mr.. F. z. Lewis was
chairman, recommended TO the Board
of Education that teachers should bs
granted leave of absence on half pay
for one year in every ten years OF
service.
The committee pointed out the pleas
ant fact that this vacation would In
volve no increase of cost TO the city, as
the average teacher receives, after ten
years Of service, twice the salary Of a
subs itute or new appointee who would
take her place.
The board has not acted on this
recommendation.
Neither has the board dealt with
the matter of appointing married
women as teachers. Mrs. Mullan's res
olution removing all determinations
against married women was presented
several months ago.
"The wors. that can wish an au-
tior whom dislike is that he may
have TO study himself edited" said
John b. 0pdycke, head of the English
department in the Julia Richmsn High
School. 81 have twenty edited texts OF
Julius Caesar alone-yolumes Of ped
antry.
Shakespeare is crushed between the
upper and neither millstones OF expla-
nation.
college professors Of English have
no right TO interfere with q child's
education to that extent.
"The wife of famous preacher once
said that her husband handled a Bible
text as a dog handles a bone. That's
your commentator.
TAKE an untamed child said King
lake, and leave him alone for twelve
months with any translation Of Homer
and he will be nearer by twenty ccntu-
ries to the spirit Of old Greece than
will the learned commentator who
knows the Greeks as an oil and color
man may be said 70 know something
Of painting
Instead Of sweet knowledge, We
give 70 the children in the schools
vile, monkish, doggerel grammsru. die
tionaries and lexieons. and horrible
scraps Of dead languages"
The High School Teachers Assoeis-
ton will meet this morning In the
High School of Commerce at II