The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-05-04

In time, therefore, scientific and
comercial courses were added.
Belief was expressed that school
system should recognize the wide
difference in pupils and that their
individual instruction should be
given accordingly. Individual
a pupil should do the things he is
best fitted to do.
Supt. Hoke, with. the assistance
of charts, concisely explained the
Duluth courses Of study. He
showed how shortcuts under a
flexible system of promotion were
open to pupils of superior mind
and capacity. The junior high
school idea was explained and the
choice of an academic course or q
vocational course thereby opened
to a pupil. A declaration that
these features were a product of
America and not of Prussia was
greeted with loud applause.
Supt. Hoke pointed out the pres
emit. existence of vacation schools,
night schools, schools for tub
normal pupils, and even a school
for defective speech. He stated
that classes now were needed for
the blind and for cripples. EN-
phasis was laid on the desirability
of teaching commerce, manual
trades and citizenship.
"We must have a course of
study that is real to the child de-
clared the speaker. eOne Of the
big things is industrial work. Last
year industrial work was extended
down through the elementary
grades
Supt. Hoke emphasized what a
big factor the trained worker is
in industrial work and that the
federal government at last has
recognized this in the Smith
Hughes act whereby the local
schools are told that for every dol
lar expended for industrial edu-
cation the government will add
another dollar. Plans are under
way in the local schools to take
advantage Of that law.
Mr.. Noyes opened his remarks
with, a reference to the need of
techinal skill and efficiency. Win
ming a war, so far as man power
goes, depends on techinal effici-
ency. Our government has real
lied it by selecting 10000 men
| from the card indexes. Those
techinally proficient will naturally
drop back where they belong at
ter the war.
On the start, the British army
was led by gentlemen officers.
The government soon saw that
techinal experts were needed to
win the war.
Industrial efficiency is the fab
rio that knits together modern
society. This idea must be incor.
porated in the public school sys-
tenn. Unity of plan and purpose
for society and variety in the de-
elopment of the individual is
proper procedure.
! Only recently has the import.
ance Of industrial training been
appreciated. The best industrial
schools originally were open only
to Negroes, idiots or criminals.
Every child should have an op.
| portunity to find out what he is
good for. The whole boy should
60 to school. His studies. should
have his undivided attention.
The child should learn by doing
and the doing should result in
skill, skill, skill.
Information, facts, are given the
child in the lower grades. The
Junior high school, bringing home
the thought to a boy as to what he
should do, enables him to expert
ment and explore as to his natural
tastes and capacity. The, high
school vocational training should
fit the student for the world :
work.
The speaker, in closing, empha.
sized the value and Importance of
industrial unity.
The regular monthly meeting Of
| the Duluth Commercial Club