South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-08-31
High Schools dust Appeal to
All Glasses, Says Dr.. Van
0rmer in Address at
Teacher institute.
PREMIUM FACED TOO
HIGH on SELF-MADE MEN
Lincoln Sent His Son to College
Because 1t Was Better Than
the Old Way of SeCur-
ing an Education.

Three problems OF the high school
the peoples college as he termed 1t
were presented by DR. ~ b. Van
Ormer at the opening lecture before
the second days meeting of the st.
Joseph county teachers institute. The
problems as presented by DR.. Van Or
mer were: (1) TO get the boy and girl
into high school, 60 10 hold the boy
and girl in the high school after they
are once in, and CD to present the
matter of teaching in the proper form.
"In view of the fact that so many
people can not or will not go TO col
lege. consideration ought TO be given
TO the high SchOOl-the peoples col
lege Less than one per cent of the
population of the United States, of
people who are old enough TO be
recorded in the census takenfi of men
and women in this broad land of ours
have had a college education. Many
boys and girls toll on and on that ne
or she may get a college course, 1 am
not saying, understand. a college de-
gree, for there are many, many men
and women who have gained college
degrees that did not justly earn them.
Then too, there is the large number
that can not so, and that is where tho
peoples college comes in.
Education is Needed.
a success without college education
is no reason why either you or ! should
not take q CO course We must
be careful of our CONGRATULATIONS about
the self-made man. / am not limiting
disparagements at the man who has
faced untold obstacles to make a sue
cess of life ana OF business without the
college education, but we must not
hold at too high a premium the self
made man. Lincoln's message in one
of his speeches was give the boys and
girls a chance. Because he himself
had only rude education. gained by
sitting beside a fire of pine faggOts and
studying at night by the light that
that fire gave out did not mean that
he was TO advise his own son 10 study
the same. Oh. no. he sent his son
TO Harvard That son made a success
Of life and of business. He is just
as much a self-made man as was his
father. The only difference is in the
tools they used
"Multitudes of boys and gir's Will
never get TO college until conditions
change materially That day may
never come. | do not know. but the
least we can do is to give them as
much of a college education through
the high school as possible. Bring
into the high school as much of the
college as the boy or girl needs To go
out and face the problems of life
Bring into the high schOol-the peo-
pies college-as much Of the college
curriculum as is needed by those boys
and girls. For the high school is in
large measure the only college
course that a big number OF those
boys and girls Will get.
Teachers Can Help.
Grade teachers can do much to-
wards helping the boy and girl to 90
through high school The percentage
of boys and girls that enter the grades
and enter the high school is only %
per cent. We must raise this percent
age Tn the old dave provision was
made for the doctors son or the law
yer'S son. that they might have q gen.
eral Introductory course in the high
school which would be a preliminary
to the work that they were TO continue
while IN the college But what of the
poor mans son. the laborer's son? We
must think Of him. And the time has
come when We are thinking of him
The high school has courses for the
labOrlng mans son, that will give him
an INSIGHT into the problems that he
must face in the business world
But above all L say get the bows
and girls into the high school and
hold them there, hold them during
the critical stage Of adolescence. The
time too has come, when high school
teachers must be professionally
trained for teaching as well as acad-
emically trained. For the worst meth
DDS of teaching employed today. +