New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-18
BREAD Line RESULT.
OF SCHOOL SYSTEM
Qualities Best Rewarded
Not Those Which Tell
in Workshop.
CULTURAL SUBJECTS
JUST TAKE UP TIME
Initiative Is More Useful than
Obedience. Says Principal
Of Pratt Institute.
By HENRIETTA RODMAN

Bv HENRIETTA R0DMAN.
The city pays Dean Schneider and
Mr.. Writ each $1,000 a week for the
period they work II amounts to S2O,OOO
year for the services OF these TWO
! experts.
! il they can take the boys and girls
I Of this community and make happy and
useful citizens of them, $4,000 isn't
/ too much. We're spending S40,0OO,OOO
now. and we're not getting results.
The bread line is a part OF the PROD
uct Of our public schools.
Yesterday asked Edgar Rice, sec
rotary Of the School OF Science and
Technology, OF Pratt Institute, Brook.
lyn, how Pratt meets the problem OF
: fitting men for their work and finding
! the work.
The average graduate OF this school
makes 5000 a month by the time he IS
thirty years old. The poorest of the
/ graduates make 1925 a month. the best
nearly $500. 1t is a good school, bet
! ter than any public school in the city.
"The work in the school is of the
same character as that 10 be done III
regular employment" said Mr.. Rice.
NO subject is taught because OF It's
We have no time. The course is two
years. and we take boys Of seventeen
without requiring high school train
ing"
Il suppose your work tests boys
ability fairly exactly I said. The
ordinary courses in the public schools
do not"
You mean" said Mr.. Rice. chat a
boy might do good work in Latin, al
| zebra and history, and yet fail as
lawyer. But you would expect that a
! boy who did exceptional work in an
! electrical laboratory would succeed as
an electrician.
81 have made a study of our grad
yates TO find out whether those who
! did the best work in school are the
most successful afterward. The re-
suits may surprise you. | found that
some Of our best students are receiv-
ing the lowest pay, while some, whom
ths teachers considered poorest, are
doing ;he most responsible work and
receiving the highest salaries"
as this because the schools recog-
,ize the highest qualities in the boys
and the industries do not?" | asked.
~ think it may be because different
qualities are rewarded in the schools
md in the industries" Mr.. Rice re-
piled. "The schools rate obedience
very high; the industries, on the other
land, value initiative"
MADAM Ought not the members
of the Board Of Education and the
Board of Superlntendents to De re-
ouired 10 send their children to the
public schools? Under the compul-
sorry education law we, the common
people, are compelled to send our
children there.
These boards are responsible Tor
the excellence of the schools. II they
make them good enough for our chill
dren, Why aren't they good enough Tor
theirs? REB Y. ANKEL.'
I done know. Aren't they?
President Thomas W. Churchill, OF
the Board Of Education, announced
Yesterday the new standing commit
tees of the board for this year.
ptnance--Gresas chairman: Bennett. Lew. suy-
dam. Wh.ien. WILCOX. Wilsey. NJ. D.
Buildinss-Wilsey. chairman: Bennett Benson
Filsrt. FlsIner. Keller Lsyslie. Martin, lhomhi
Supplies De Lshey. chairman; Benson Cunhi'"'
Ferris. Miller. Neamsn. Ms Towns. ,.. r..
Bvlavs and Hesitation stein chairman NoS'
grove. Gillespie H.rt'on. Man. ,,..,,., IN,
Sites-TnoiusS chairman; Coegrore. Fosdlck ful-
Element4ry schools Gillespie. chairman: Fuller.
Ksile.. Ls7ello. somes, stem. sullivan Mrs.
Hi:h schoos and Training Schools somsr,. ch.ir-
r.u: Bigh.m Greene. HarhneSs Miss lrventrlt;.
Or Mcdonald Dr. Pbsni. Wtnga,c. Nnihrop +.
Lane. Mis- Drspsr. Ttnk stem. Dr. VIE A.,
Vets,ionsl schools ard Industrial Triininsr,M4t-
IN, GssIman w,l B,50nde's' Miss Df''''' h'''
''s slad,s and TsItbcos-M.n. ch4irm.n: M.
B.mherssr fleInsr. Giddins'' Dr. M'Doh-'d' in''
Lecture and Librnes-Mi;s LeI,ntii,, chat
~" C.r 30 81 Buiidnss" Cunnion, chairman; Ferris.
Athlete, -wngse chairman; Ms. Draper. Nils
Drrier Fosdick. Miller sullivan WhE,en; ,t,-,,,,
Nominations Stern. chairman; GILLESPIE Na''''
SomsTs Stein Wing,te. winthrop. ,,.
chairman Mrs B.P ,ss5 W NiTqR45D' rrssd
Davis tex onicio)
The ninth annual meeting of the
Evils, branch of the Public Schools
Athletic League will be held at the
residence of Mrs. James Speyer, 1905
Fifth Avenue, to-day, at p. m.
The speakers will be Dr. {. Ward
Cr.mpton. director Of the department
of physical training, athletics and ny
ziene and secretary Of the Public
Schools Athletic League, and Cecil >.
Sharp, founder OF the English Folk
Dance Society.
The New York City Association Of
High school Teachers of English Will
meet Saturday. at 1880 a. m, Room (
COL Of Washington Irving High School,
40 Irving Place.
Or. Dudley II. Miles will report on
"Co-operation Between Other Depart
ments and the English Department 70
Secure Better Written and Oral Eng,
Iish" Other speakers will be Principal
lanes sullivan, G.. p. F. Hobson. James
2 Peabody. william x. Haywood, Da-
vid [. Arnold. Miss Msude NJ. Frank
will report on Literature for High
Schools" and Charles Robert CASTOR on
"The Best Method of Reading a Book