The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-12-23

pay out our good money 10 Gree
teachers, and Latin teachers, an,
French teachers, and German teacher
in the blind hope that our children
(yours and mine, not John Smiths
will get certain elusive and intang
ible thing called culture. What doei
John Smith get for his money!
will ask you 10 bear with me for Q
few moments while | describe few OF
the schools where this new education
theory is being successfully worked
out. cannot 20 into detail, and will
merely give you an outline Of the work
which is being accomplished by a few
representative types.
These schools are Of two kinds, the
first group provides industrial and vo-
cational training for boys and girls
who have not yet become wage-earn-
ers, and the second group offers con-
tinuation courses for those who have
already begun to command wages.
or the first class mentioned, the
Washington Irving School in New York
City, or as il is nicknamed the Wash
ing and Ironing School, is the finest
example. This school educates both
boys and girls. After two years de-
voted to manual training and general
industrial intelligence, the student Sc
lects a trade in which he specializcs
during the remaining two years. The
school is in session AZ weeks in the
year. There are kitchens, bedrooms,
laundries, nurseries, and parlors for
the training of every girl in house
wifery. Classes of IL or more take
turns in looking after and caring for
a complete apartment ready for occu-
pancy. At intervals the place is put
in disorder and the girls have TO
matters out by putting the
house in order and ordering supply
of groceries, meats, and provisions for
the pantry. There are banks, stores.
Offices, dressmaking establishments,
and telephones for the preparation Of
young business women. There are
staples of culture, too, languages, lit
nrature, sciences, and mathematics for
those preparing for teachers schools
and colleges. The school cares for
1900 pupils and 228 instructors are
employed.
The Gary school at Gary, Indiana, is
consideration in our New
York and Boston papers Of late from
The fact that the Gary plan is suggest
I'd for the schools of New York City.
N the Gary system the students at
end school eight hours a day, al
.hough the teachers teach only six
lours, while the physical instructors
ire on duty all of the time. Work in
he classrooms is alternated with work
n the Gymnasium. Students learn to
pell and use good English through
unning printing presses and doing
he school and outside printing. On
and loom a little urchin may learn TO
yeave coarse cloth; out of clay he may
earn to make dishes or with reeds to
lake baskets. A larger pupil may
hoose dressmaking for first course
nd at the end of three months she
lust change to some other depart
tent and perhaps cook the lunch for
he school. Or if a boy, he may choose
he forging or casting shop and have
n opportunity TO shoe horses or help
n older boy make mould for an iron
and for a school desk. In the fifth
nd sixth grades nearly all Of the
,ys have course in storekeeping.
hey 60 into the storeroom with the
nitor and with the school lists at
md, unpack and check up the materi-
which comes from the workshops
I'd outside, then as things are needed,
rough the building, they take requi-
lions from the office, distribute the
aterial, and make proper entries on
e book. Before pupils can graduate,
ey must have completed certain
mber Of hours Of satisfactory work
the school shops and be able to
ow so many articles made, or pieces
ne, or tasks performed.
The vocational department is on the
me level as the academic and the
1ool takes the wholesome attitude
at the boy who intends to be car
nter or painter needs TO stay in
lool just as long as the boy who
going to college.
A third example Of school system
ere the students really learned prac-
al things is the well known George
nior Republic. Here the boys have
-ried on all Of the functions Of
yular community. They have made
.ir own laws, and appointed their
n executives 10 administer them.
ey have had their own police and
ir own judges They have elected