The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-12-01

EDUCATION
WAS SUBJECT
DISCUSSED BY TEACHERS AT
OKLAHOMA CITY - MANUAL
TRAINING WAS NO FAILURE -
NEEDS OF SCHOOLS.

Oklahoma City, Nov. 30.-lndustria
education instead OF manual training
was the subject of an interesting
| discussion in the state meeting oi
teachers here this week Many per
sons, including some teachers, con
slider the terms manual training and
industrial education synonymous. -
said r. T.. Erickson of the East Cen
! tral State Normal school. "They are
not. Manual training places the EN-
phasis on general mental, physical
and moral development as result OF
hard work Industry places the EN-
phasis on the finished article Man
ual training aims to prepare the stu
dent as much for a doctor, for a
carpenter or cabinet maker. In.
dustral education in its strict sense
attempts to train the individual for
only one particular industrial pur-
suit"
Manual Training No Failure.
Mr.. Erickson declared that manual
training is not failure in the pub
lie schools, even though it has not
done all that has been claimed for il.
He asserted that it has led to estab-
lishment of courses for industrial ed
ucation.
Other speakers talked of the need
for experienced and capable teachers
of industrial courses. II. +. McCrea
of the Southwestern State Normal
school said that in order for teach
er of industrials to acquire the proper
attitude toward his work he must
master his subject. "It is true, he
continued, that pedagogy plays an
other branches, but if the teacher is
unable to do well the work he is
asking the pupils to do, he can not
hope for success. This is the cause
of failure of manual training courses
in many schools"
In the course of his address on
the needs of the educational propa-
ganda in Oklahoma, DR.. Charles Ey.
ans, president of the Central Normal
school, pointed out seven things that
must be done He emphasized these
and referred to them as forts that
must be captured The needs of the
Oklahoma schools are epitomized by
him as follows:
Needs Of Oklahoma Schools.
Every child in Oklahoma must
have the blessing of at least school
term of 160 days.
Every school child of Oklahoma
must have trained teacher
Every school child of Oklahoma
must have a school home, comfort
able and attractive, and each rural
school must have not less than five
acres of land to cultivate and on it
must be a residence for the teacher.
Every Cllllu i'N'So w q
circulating library, carefully selected
and owned and controlled by the de-
partment of public instruction of the
state.
Every child must have a course
of study looking and moving in the
direction of individual efficiency for
making a living rather than toward
preparation for a particular school.
Every school district must be large
enough and rich enough so that pro
vision may be made for hand crafts,
domestic science of home-making,
practical agriculture, lyceum courses,
music and other social welfare clubs,
all under the direction of teacher
employed and on his job twelve
months in the year.
Day schools must not only be sup
piled, but the moonlight" school
must be employed until all the TO-
900 and more Of illiterates in Okla
lor,o bova fair cbapna