The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-04-03

the manual training student may be-
come an architect, thus enterins
one of the most profitable fields oil
labor. He cited an example OF a
boy. who re-entered school when
manual trimming was introduced.
The work In the high school In the
average subject is very different
from that OF the grades. This caus-
es the boys to drop out of school.
Manual training in the high school
Is not different from that in the
grades, hence this subject helps the
boy to find himself when once he
enters the high school. Manual
training should be given in the
grades because the constructive abil-
lily of the pupil is greater at an
early age than it is later. BY the
time the tenth grade is reached the
constructive ability is on the de-
cline. Manual training can be cas-
ily correlated with the home, for the
student learns to make furniture IN
this department, thus teaching him
the various kind OF woods, also
whether his furniture at home is an
limitation or genuine. In the south
we have a limited amount OF man
ual training work, in fact our man
ual training students. so far as their
knowledge is concerned, are worth
less OF the world Courses at pres
en- tin the high school are almost
too cultural, only twelve per cent
of our high school students go to
college, and our courses are planned
and prepared for the sole purpose
OF benefiting the twelve per cent.
Any vocation you can mention is
taught in the northern schools and
this truly prepares their students
| for life, whereas in our southern
schools the training is such that the
student is prepared for nothing.
Mrs. Harris then followed Mr..
Scott She gave a very clear pre-
sentation of the subjects of domes-
| tic art and domestic science in the
grades. She said that it is absolute
" essential to give the girl training
in domestic science and art in school
for she makes use of this training
! in her home. She has no schance to
secure any training other than that
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given in the school, but the boy
can secure his training in the indus
rtial world. Many mothers do not
want to bother with the girls, con-
sequently the high school girl knows
less of domestic science and domes-
tic art than sixth grade child
should know. The high school
teacher of domestic art is forced to
teach such rudimentary things as
darning and patching. This work
should be covered in the grades,
| thus saving year of the high school
work. Good training should be Civ
en- in the grades in domestic science
and art because the tasks in the high
school are exceedingly difficult.
Domestic science and domestic art
are expanding each year. The ex-
pansion should be in the high
school. One year of the work now
found in the high school should be
| given in the grades, for If domestic
science and art are given in the
grades the pupil can find herself
easily and when she enters the high
school she will find a subject she is
already acquainted with. Then pu-
pills may not enter the high school,
and If they do not then the grade
work is extremely valuable to them,
since they will need this work, in
the homes. Above all things put all
preliminary domestic science and
domestic art in the grades.
Miss Morris then discussed art in
the grades She said that students
in art feel that it is not of much
lyalue because il is dropped in the
high school. She feels that you can
create greater interest in the sixth
grade in art if YOU show the child
that you are preparing it for the
18th grade domestic science and art.
Then the boys can be made to I'M
/ derstand that the drawing, which
they learned in the sixth grade. will
be of much help to them when they
take up mechanical drawing in the
fseventh grade.
Mr.. Herndon then asked if the
boys and girls in the sixth and sew
meth grades could get more good
| out of manual training and domes-
tic science than they do out OF sub
| jects now taught In the second
place he asked if the expense in
volved would be more than the
school could afford. Mr.. Crews and