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

WHAT SUPERINTENDENT HOkE SAID.
Duluth schools never will revert to their before
the-war basis
Changes in administration system, in the kind OF
subject matter emphasized, in teaching methods, IN
the whole spirit of the boys and girls in school and
the entire relation Of the school to the community
and to the business Of fe have grown out of the
Rule revision relating to the administration duties
and the government of the boys and girls partcu
lar phases which will be suggested at meeting of
the Duluth Board Of Education to be held tonight.
RETAIN WAR SPIRIT.
To retain the spirit of the war in the process Of
education is the purpose of the special meeting.
In many instances the Duluth school rules
have grown out Of the part which the schools have
played in the and the effect of warimposed
cessties the schools. The revolution will not 60
backward the opinion of DIR. x. J. HoKE super
intendent, in a statement to the News Tribune last
night.
DISCIPLINE OF WAR BENEFICIAL
GAS nation have been disciplined through
war;" DIR. HOKE 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 sugarcoating Of school
work is disappearing and the boys and girls are glad
of it,
It is the call of duty. The pupil who doesn't do his
school work properly is looked now as an educa-
tional slacker.'
'sThrough the war the schools have come to deal
directly with the things of real life and through it
the 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 emergency, have
brought about national conception of the part
which the schools must play in national lfe," DIR.
HOKE said.
GAS people we have come to believe profoundly
in scientific, technical and industrial education.
''The emphasis this type of education is
related to 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 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
Duluth and towns under the Federal Board Of Voca-
tiona Education is the beginning of larger plans for
public education to grow from and postwar
ditions," DIR. HoKE said
"Duluth is heading toward continuation work,
he prophesed. Through continuation schools eduea-
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 go into shops and factories.
New demands which the community is making upon
the school bringing about new forms Of school
administration, it is pointed out
ALLYEAR-'RoUND SCHOOL COMING.
''The allyear- round school is coming in Mime
sofa result Of the war;, is the opinion Of d. E.
Flynn state inspector of high schools cit is sweep
ing the country Through it the child will take his
vacation wherever it fits best with his circumstances
if he chooses he may to school IL months Of the
year.
HThe system will give opportunity to devote
one of the four quarters of the school year to indus
trial training and to try out the boys and girls in
various vacations to find what life work each might
best adopt. 1t will make possible very close
nection between the schools and the Industrial pant
"Before the close of the present year Minnesota
will have worked out state plan for standardized
all-year.'r onnd school," Mr.. Flynn said. "Meet-
ngs of school work out the best way Of admin
sterng the plan will be held all over the state under
the auspices Of the state department of education.
"The old school Subjects themselves have under
gone war change. German has almost disappeared.
Only five or six public high schools in the entire
state have freshmen German classes this year. Only
16 or 20 ar eoffering second year German classes.
French and Spanish are gaining. But more signifi'
cant 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 we are not
going to teach languages from the grammar or htera-
standpoint, but where going to teach them
from the standpoint of practical use,'' Mr. Flynn
said. ''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 pe-emphasized. And here
elsewhere is the usefulness Of the knowledge in
industry which is bringing about the emphasis. The
new industrial will be a new scientific era.
"Army emphasis on the soldiers physical condition
has brafght 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