The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-10-04
DISCIPLINE OF WAR BENEFICIAL.

DISCIPLINE OF WAR BENEFICIAL.
Gas nation we have been disciplined through
war;" MIR. FLYNN said. "The discipline, and the
serious responsibilities which boys and girls have to
undertake loyal citizens has had its effect The
old soft pedagogy and the old sugarcoang Of school
work disappearing and the boys and girls are glad
Of it.
'The war has sounded new note in the schools:
1t is the call of duty. The pupil who doesn't do his
school work properly is looked on now as an educa-
tional slacker'
Through the war the schools have come to deal
directly with the things of real life, and through it
the man on the street has come to realization
of what education is worth
OFFICERS SCHOOLS EVIDENCE.
Emphasis education and vocational training
in the officers schools and in the specialized branches
Of army service together with the great pressure Of
industrial needs due to the war emergency, have
brought about national conception of the part
which the schools must play in national life, MR.
FLYNN said.
GAS a people we have come to believe profoundly
in scientific, technical and industrial education.
ssThe new emphasis on this type Of education is
related the broad economic and social movements
of the time The next great movement will be great
industrial movement. It will be the big task of the
schools to train workers for the worlds production
in their eight hours of work. and no less their task
to train the people for the proper enjoyment Of their
coming eight hours Of leisure"
CONTINUATION SCHOOLS URGED.
educational education already being carried on in
q Minnesota cities and towns under the Federal
Board of Vocational Education is the beginning Of
larger plans for public education to grow from war
and postwar conditions" MIR. FLYNN said.
minnesota is heading toward continuation work,
he prophesied. Through continuation schools educa
ton along general cultural lines well trade train
ing will be made available to young men and women
of school age who have dropped out Of the regular
schools to 60 into shops and factories"
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the school are bringing about forms Of school
administration, it is pointed out
AL1-YEAR-'RoUND SCHOOL COMING.
THE all-year- round school is coming in Mime
sofa result of the war, MIR. FLYNN said. cit
is sweeping the country. Through it the child will
take his vacation wherever it fits best with his cir
cnmstances, if he chooses he may 60 to school IL
months OF the year.
''The system will give opportunity to devote
Of the four quarters Of the school year to indus
trial training and to try out the buys and girls in
various vocations to find what life work each might
best adopt. 1t will make possible very ciase con-
necon between the schools and the nda. ial liant"
'sBefore the close of the present year Minnesota
will have worked out state plan for standardized
al.year- round school, " MIR. FLYNN said. meet
ings school work out the best way of admin
istering the plan will be held all the state under
the auspices Of the state department Of education
sThe old school Subjects themselves have under
gone war change. German has almost disappeared.
Only five or six public high schools in the whole
state have freshmen German classes this year. Only
16 or 20 offering second year German classes
French and Spanish gaining. But more signifi
than the attitude toward any language is the
changed attitude toward the whole question Of Ian
guage study.
LANGUAGES TO BE SPOKEN.
'We are coming to the point where are not
going to teach languages from the grammar itera
ture standpoint but where we are going to teach them
from the standpoint of practical use," NIB. FLYNN
said .3'We going to teach languages so that the
child will have speaking knowledge Of the language
taught. Far from disappearing, modern language
study is being re-emphasized and revealed.
"Science too, is being re-enphasized. And here as
elsewhere it is the usefulness Of the knowledge in
industry which is bringing about the emphasis. The
new industrial era will be scientific
"Army emphasis on the soldiers physical condition
has brought with it great popular awakening As to
the duty Of physical preparedness Mr.. FLYNN
adds The next big school movement, he predicts,
will be health movement.
emusic too, has been motivated' into the schools"