New-York tribune., 1915-03-03
WOULD AID YOUTHS
IN PICKING TRADES
Dean Schneider to Con
meet City Schools with
Its Industries.
ISADORA DUNCAN'S
DANCING INSPIRING
Board of Education Urged to
Have Her Teach Her Art
to Children.
BY HENRIETTA RODMAN.

Dy HENRlE 1 y hODMAN.
Dean Schneider OF the University of
Cincinnati has been engaged by the
City Of New York TO establish n CON
nection between public schools and the
industries.
1t was formerly our habit to carry
boy or girl carefully through school
and then dump him or her at the
threshold of industry to find his or her
own way in
Dean Schneider has established an
international reputation by his success
full work in guiding young people into
suitable vocatlons, and thus saving the
generation the costly ineiIiciency of the
man who has not found mis- work.
"A man is most efficient when his
work gives him the greatest satisfac
ton" Dean Schneider said recently.
"Under present conditions our young
people blunder into jobs.
Every individual has certain broad
characteristics, and every type Of work
requires certain broad characteristics.
The problem, then, is TO discover these
characteristics, or talents, in individ-
uals, and to classify the types of jobs
by the talents which they require.
, 81 have in mind number of our stu
dents who were utter failures at man
ual dexterity, but who maintained uni
I formly good grades in school Work.
Their efficiency was all head efficiency.
There have been number also who
were hopeless in all their university
work, but whose hands acquired skill
easily.
THE first type might make good de-
eli inc
ers, but, unlike the second type, would
drag out hopeless eXistcnces as ma
chlnists, mouldcrs, masons or piano
makers OF course, most OF our stu
dents possess both etiiciencies.'
These remarks Of Dean Schneider and
others TO come are the most practical
suggestions that any one has yet made
on the absorbing subject Of hnding
ones work. Try them on yourself.
Did you know that 10000 children,
fourteen years old. leave school every
wear to 90 TO work, and that the schools
provide vocational training Tor less
than 2l2 per cenC Of them?
People still live who say that there
are no arguments against a large board
of education. But it's impossible that
there is anybody who doesn't kno"
that there has been as much written 20
prove the inferiority OF the large board
as there has been to prove, say the
inferiority Of women.
+ Just take the HOwe-Goodnow report,
published by the city in 1913. open II
anywhere and read the first line tAaJ
you see.
Here's mine: "The Jealousy with
which each committee guards ITS p&r--
ticular Jurisdiction" There are $40
pages in this report alone, and 40 lines
10 page
/ If | were the B. OF E. ! should bor-
row an armory tomorrow or the day
after. ard should invite lSadora Dun
can 20 come in and teach 10 thousand
children her pure and equ'site art.
OF course. Isadora might not come.
She IS rather conventlonally the great
artist. Uncontrolled indlyiduallSm IS
about as commonplace among them as
unouestioning conformity Is among
teachers.
But I should borrow the armory,
nevertheless. and she would probably
come. for she is controlled absolutely
bv the table necessity Of the c:e-
ative genius. We may accept her art
or ignore it. But she must present her
And what a gift it :s dear Board Of
Education, this thrilling expression, OF
lovely and noble emotion! Other
forms Of dancing often express our
baser erotions. But hers breatheS
only the pure. serene.
In il we have a rebirth Of Greeh
culture. Il ranks with the scu pture OF
Saint Gaudeus among America great
est gifts 10 civilization.
Ave- vou ouite sure that there IS no
rloce for il in uublic education?
The Elementary Class Teachers As
sociation of New York City, to
teachers, will hold IN important meet
inc at Terrace Garden, FL Gh'h
Street. near Third Avenue, on Tuesday
March 9, at p. m.