Albuquerque morning journal., 1921-03-14
SURVEY" GIVES
PRAISE To BOOK
BY DOCTOR HILL
New York Magazine Regards
Local Educators Work on
Vocational Training As a
Rare Contribution

High praise is given to "Introduc-
tion to Vocational Training" by DR..
David Spence Hill, president of the
state university, in recent issue
of survey"
Declaring that the work is a
source of rare value" the Sur
vey' says:
"For about a decade apd a half,
since the first labOrs of the socalled
Douglas commission on industrial
education in Massachusetts, voca-
tional education below college
grade has been much in the spot
light of public attention in Amer
lea. We have investigated, expert
mented seriously, and compared
aims, methods and results at nome
and abroad.
'eHe who would like to enter the
field of vocational teaching or ad-
ministration, or he who would IKE
to trace development of vocational
education and Judge of it's vitality
after thorough consideration of
facts, principles and arguments Tor
and against it--in all its varied as
pects-Will find DR.. Hills lntroduc-
ton to Vocational Education lnVai-
liable. ....
Citations Well Chosen.
zone student of education may
give you only his own views in MS
book. Another may give you
source book compiled from the eX-
periences and pronouncements OF
others with nothing of himselt IN
i. DR.. Hill's book is rich in ad-
mirably citations from research
among authorities, 1t is a source
book Of rare value, but in it he also
gives you himself. At no point are
YOU in doubt as to his opinion, nor
that his opinion is that of q vigor-
Gus and enlightened American edu-.
Gator.
"There are alarmists in educa-
tion. The writer of this book is
constructive critic and cannot be
stampeded. For example, he says
1T may be necessary, under certain
circumstances to have separate ag-
ricultural schools, as entirely sep.
erate as some of the purely classical
high schools. He comedies that
the former, too isolated, would
tend to "peasantize" the farming
population Just as the latter could
breed intellectual pretenders or
snobs -, - He quotes with ap-
nroval the editor of a metropolitan
daily who wrote with special refer
enoe to education for Women--not
merely for girls: We shall have
world safe for democracy when the
war is over, but not safe for the
uneducated.' He sees educational
forces in their entirety, and Is Tor
'keeping open during the career OF
every individual adequate opportun-
ity for elementary, for liberal, ana
for specialized vocational education
compatible with democracy. He
is an optimist who sees that Voca-
tional education must dltter from
classical education--must even dill
fer in its own broad field as to
kinds, content and method--but
believes we may rely upon the ma
ture of instructors, upon the quallty
of teachers, upon the home, and
upon social organizations to coun-
teract any evil tendencies in sep
arate, technical classes or schools.
Wide Range of Subjects.
Having given the reader a
knowledge of the nature, signifi-
canoe and number of the questions
social, educational and occupa-
tionar in their philosophical and
historical perspective the author
devotes his final chapter to Uses of
Research for Education and In
dustry, and in it advocates a gener-
al procedure, in attacking difficult
ties of adjustment affecting the
school, industry and society as a
whole which he holds to be vital.
lone cannot leave DR.. Hill's book |
without a chastened sense of the
problems still unsolved in vocation
al education, nor yet without a |
sense of uplift over progress already |
achieved which may go far toward |
us for successful attack up |
on other problems of education as
they arise"