The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-02-02
TEACHERS REORGANIZE..
Elect Officers Goucher of Goucher College, Delivers
IN Interesting Address Prof. KoIb spoke Broad
ening Vision of the High School Age The Pro-
gram Prepared Was Carried Out

that all OF us have tO make living?
AT course You may want tO except the
great number or home makers, but af-
ter all their work iH vocational The
vocation Of h0me-making is a funda-
mental sort Of thing Tor great many
Of our girls and it must he rec0E-
nized and dealt with. It seems To me
that tine high school teacher, tine high
school principal, the standard in gen
eral, and the whole organization and
theory OF our country, have tO be
modified to meet the demands and
needs of our community life These
notifications must depend upon the
individuals of the home from which
these children come, upon what kind
OF occupation these children are
probably going into. and it may mean
in time that instead OF having great
many high schools we shall have
modern high schools specializing up
on certain types Of vocations and oc-
cupatiOns. All high schools should
h. able to- do something for the Vpca-
tion of home making. The CONNER
cial activities, commercial industries,
training for colleges are 1T different
questions and they are going tO be
very big questions in the future Some
time ago the story came to my notice
of very ardent lover who had been
pressing his niaims and who was very
much disappointed at hiS lack Of sue
cess. Ha said, "I cannot seem tO get
you interested III my welfare v She
said, You reverse the Syllables in
that last word and Il ann very much
interested Has NOT the high school
&C. times been interested in THE fare
well but not the welfare or the pupil ?
Perhaps legitimately 10; but Id seems
to ne that the future high school to
q large extent, must consider that
these children arc going out tO make
= living, and It must be concerned
with that as much as with any one
thing; this makes the problem Of the
schools q real problem.
What about the social civic aim
Well for ona hundred and fifty years
in this Country WR have been talking
about good citiEanahif ifn tlle idea being
that an elementary school education
was fundamental fDr citizenship. How
can you expect a man to- be- good
citizen who has not " good body w
build on. Cam we expect a man tO be
q good citizen who has not been pre-
pared im 4RnHaa lwaT A0 make -a4 satiB-
factory living2 taaIti is not COM
paratiVely easy to be a citizen
in the United States off America.
It seems It Is growing more difficult
tO To- Intelligent On good many
questions we have to think out. One
or them might be this matter Of mill
tary training. Some Of them sophie
mores, we are told BY an advocate of
military training, have the idea that
military training would bring ON
war. Here on the other hand, is the
fact that most off our present day
educators advise not military train
ing but training for Peace. U ara in-
clined to think that any high school
can AFFORD to be without most OF the
other subjects it has until it has "a
good course Of community civics.
These subjects are here for cultural
purposes. We want a child TO have
q sound body either for leisure or
work W. want him tO d. able to-
make a good living. We want him to
b. "a good citizen and We must look
to The question a. to whether we have
training for ood-citiZenship In our
high schools today. Some one has
said that we are SO liable to forget
that we are teaching John and not
the different studies, and I find lit
makes vast difference In many ways.
w must train pupils to- find them
selves. This is a vague term, this mat
ter OF helping pupils To find them
selves, but unless WV see that our
first problems Is with the child / do
not believe our modern high school
is going to advance very far. LIN the
second place II seems w me there
must beia great amount OF attention
given to the direction OF the social
instincts. I should not want wv ad-
vocate any particular form. But to
get social instincts into the pupils is
all that IL needed i'm the fundamental
system OF the high school. I do not
know how largely We can organize
our curriculum, and no one knows at
the present time. we only have w
many hours "a day to teach, and Id is
FOR the purpose Of talking over some
of these problems that We are aII
gathered today. do not think lit
makes any particular difference
WE are dealing with minds In
the high school, minds below the high
school or minds in a College
An Music by the Orchestra.
Adjourned at II o'clock until ar
ternoon session Afternoon session
called to order at 1.3O.
D Address by Mr.. Chas. H. KoIb
on the Broadening Vision of the High
School Age.
Mr- kOlb's address was most inter-
esting, and the points he brought out
were very clear and well put His dis
cuasion of the different methods in
teaching pupils between the young
age and the adolescent period was
very instructive
Another point which has caused |
much serious discussion was brought /
.orth by Mr.. KoIb; namely, the fact I
hat special training should be given
p High School teachers AT apart /
rom elementary teachers.
80 interesting discussion ON this h
subject by Mr.. Edw. x. Coughran.
dr. Wilbur III KOontz, Miss Julia I'D. VI
Roeder and MT. F.. W. Craumer fol-
owed.
Nj. The Proper Studies and Curri- N
.ulum to be offered In a small town I
High School, or the Adaptation w Tile
iigh School to the needs of its
PUPILS, was the subject of a most In
eresting address by the President,
#. r. r. Young. Without seeming
D b. at Iii radical in his ideas, he
ave very convincing statements
which tended to prove that our pres
mt Curriculum contains some studies
which are useful for developing the