The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-02-10
SCHOOL AID is DESIRABLE
Asserts Society's Safety Grows With
Ability to Educate Every Mem
ber-Democracy Is Nurtured
by Learning.

"The welfare of society depends upon
its ability to educate all of it's mem
bers to the full extent of which they
are capable, and society will be weak
In just the extent that it fails to do
this, was one of the words of wisdom
incorporated in Thomas Lloyd Jones
| talk before the High School Parent
Teacher associations meeting in the
high school Monday afternoon.
One of the most important things to
| teach children, in the estimation of
Mr.. Jones, is to make good use of
their leisure. He said that in the old
| days of long hours, the little leisure
remaining after the days work was
done, was rightfully invested in pure
recreational amusements, but now that
| machinery has come to the help of the
| world and given to the worker more
leisure time, the investment Of that
| leisure is serious problem.
1T am not here to question the adj
visibility of the moving picture" the
speaker said, "but when boy or girl
spends all the leisure that spending
money will permit in moving picture
houses, then the movie has become
a problem.
ssThere is no limit to the accom-
plishment of the individual young man
or woman who uses leisure well. IF he
or she fritters away leosure time, at
forty they will find themselves living
life far below what might have been
lived had they accepted opportunities
offered.
con the other hand, we want to
train children to enjoy wholesome fun
and to keep in contact with the right
kind of sport all through life. - Mr..
Jones then spoke of man of 70 who
enjoys skating on the Madison lakes,
and said he envied that man his abil-
ity to keep in touch with life in this
way.
He especially warned parents that
for the welfare of the child the home
should be made the center Of his social
activities and houses should be built
with this In mind and facilities fur
nish4d for making the home the place
where the best times could be enjoyed
| by the children.
He urged that parents teach the
| child with the help of his school to
| fill the niche in life that his powers
! entitle him to fill.
Don't Want Separate Schools.
! Mr.. Jones emphatically decries sep
arate schools, as an industrial school,
a domestic science school or manual
training school separate from the
academic department. He believes in
the housing Of each of these depart
ments under one roof, where the pupil
taking training in an industrial course
| comes in daily contact with the pupil
in the academic course. Tt is only in
this way, Mr.. Jones believes, that sym
pathy between the hand and mind
workers will be secured and perpet-
uated While the loss to the industrial
| student would be great in case of sep
aration of the schools, Mr.. Jones
asserts that the loss to the academic
students would be even greater.
He believes education and under
standing of each group of society by
every other group is the keynote to
| democracy. Ignorance he called the
instigator of hatred. The troubles
between mistresses and maids, he feels
sure, might be quickly done away with
could the mistress learn to understand
the maid IS viewpoint.
He would be glad to see educational
systems devised to make it easy for
pupils to make what he termed hori-
zontal changes; that is, changes from
one training to another, and switching
from the preparation for trade to
that of a professional, and vice versa
in the case of change of mind This
switching, he says, is quite as desirable
as the vertical change, by which he
said he meant the ability to climb
higher up in the chosen course.
Mr.. Jones doesn t like the term vo-
cational guidance. He prefers stvoca-
tional intelligence He advocates
bringing to the pupil all available
knowledge as to what the demands of
certain trade or profession are and
what the preparation for it means, and
after giving the pupil this information,
letting him exert his vocational intel
/ ligence in making his choice of life
work.
Mr. Jones called America the land
where all are given opportunity ac-
cording to ability. He said that
while some, like Lincoln, are able to
reach eminence without schooling, that
this is an ability beyond the usual,
and tie only safe way for society to
| do is to provide proper schools for its