New Britain herald., 1916-02-10

education in earning than in educa- tion itself declared MT. Thompson.
 The Continuation School furnishes this opportunity. This school as it
 works out provides working boys and girls with an opportunity to attend | school under much the same condi- 1 tions as their work demands. They
 must be punctua1 and the hours are
 credited to their pay the same as
 when at actual work.
 Every teacher and educator knows that education and life are the same
 said MT. Thompson, although this be- lief Is opposed to old time theory,
 which believed that education cea sed
 at graduation and then the boy or girl went out into life. It is the mod
 ern contention that education and life
 run together and begin with birth and ] never separate. His theory of edu ;a- tion is something to use at once and
 the best preparation for living tomor-
 row is to live today. Another old tirne theory that has been upset relates to work. Work was considered degrnd-
 ing and parents educated their chil-
 dren with the idea that they would
 then be fortified against the necessity of labor. The theory of the continual ton school is the application of work to education. One thing it is aimed to do is to turn the boy aside from the blind alley job, the job which leads only to , brick wall. To illustrate this point the speaker termed an elevator job blind alley job. It takes only a week at the utmost to learn to operate an ele- Vator. While this job has it's physical ups and downs from mental stand point it is a dead level job and pro- v1des no stepping stones to higher pO- sitions. It is the aim of the continual tion school to turn the boy aside from such vacations and to turn his thoughts and efforts to something that leads ahead.
 Waterbury's Experiment.
 Superintendent B. w. Tinker Of Waterbury told of Water burys con- tinuation school, which is patterned after no accepted standard. Water bury's school was created out or a condition which confronted Brass City manufacturers, said MT. Tinker. some few years back they discovered that skilled mechanics were scarce. Bel gium, France, Germany and England were no longer furnishing them m quantity to this country, but they were needed. Some of the manufacturers put the matter up to the boaro ol education and it was agreed 10 staHI a school that would furnish young ap- prentices with the necessary tecEn1- cal knowledge. Seven concerns were at first included in the movement and som mething over 100 students were ell rolled. The school was operated o1 a strict eight hour schedule. from $ to 12 o'clock and from to 5 o'clock, but
 
 Saturday afternoons, this tune oehe given to conference between the l teachers and the boys on the 1ob to see how much real help was pe'nS l given. The school has proved toc ] most practical possible to estaphsh l and today all of the twenty-t"o large concerns in Waterbury are directly ln- terested in it's success. Each appren- tice attends the continuation school four hours a week, a half day ses- sion and is paid for the time the same as at the shop. There is no regular course, the problems actually faced in the shop being the ones worked out in the school, and it is a fact these boys are doing applied mathematical work that cannot be done by teachers in the High school. Outside of t'te technical study one hour is devoted to cultural topics. such as the study Of he history. also local history pertain ng to the manufacturing concerns and public institutions of Waterbury. A diploma and certificate are given to he apprentices on the completion of lis four years course, to which the sig natures of all the foremen in the shop under whom he has worked is at ,ached.
 w. B. Anthony of Fitchburg con- sented to give an informal talk on his recent trip to Milwaukee where he in spected a large vocational school and saw boys making bread and dough- nuts. These boys were training to 0e bakers and from them he learned that most of them were rescued from the so-called blind alley" jobs. While the speaker admitted the east is show ing the way in this last educational advance he cautioned his audience that it would not be long before the west would forge to the lead and we would be compelled to seek ideas there.
 Aims of the League.
 Following the business session of the Consumers league at the audi l torium of the High school yesterday afternoon, Kev. Dr. Rockwell Harmon l Potter of Hartford, president of the ] organization, gave an address on the | aims and accomplishments of the league in its fourteen years of life in this state. Dr. Potter is chairman of the leagues committee on public pol icy and in his remarks he harked re- peated1y to it's prime aim which is to ameliorate the condition of wage e rn ing women and children. This was i its policy at the foundation in 1902 ' and it has steadily and unfaltering l 1 worked to this end. Tn connection with this work they devised a label and urged it's use by concerns broad | minded enough to cooperate with the {