Evening journal., 1922-05-25
WORK
should BE BEST
Experts Say Standard of
Study Should Be of
Highest
SAY INDUSTRY
WANTS GOOD MEN


The need OF making the vocational
work given in the schools OF stan
dard high enough to meet the de-
mands Of industry was emphasized
by Dr. L. H. Dennis. OF the State
Department Of Education. OF Penn
sylvania. in an address at the voca-
tional teachers dinner in the High
School cafeteria fast evening. Ar
thur b. Anderson. director OF voca-
tional training in the public schools
pesided.
DR.. Dennis impressed that in order
that vocational education should not
miss fire as manual training missed
fire. the work that the pupils are
given must not be given as a set Of
exercises to be thrown away when
they leave school. but as a thorough
foundation for the trades or bust
ness they expect to enter. Printing.
he pointed out. is now being intro
duced into school courses and the
printing done in the schools must
be of the standard of the shop.
When they find that the boys and
girls going into trade received a
thoroughly business-like training in
their vocational classes. the indus
tries will support the schools. DR..
Dennis declared.
Il think It is quite probable" he
continued, that in the future, vo-
cational teachers will probably be
persons from the trades, who have
1had some training in teaching, rather
\ than. as at present, teachers with
comparatively slight vocational
training. or perhaps the teachers
who wish TO take up vocational work
will go for three or six months into
the factory, and learn the trade at
first hand.
Mrs. Mary Barrows Fernandes. OF
the Bureau Of Education. Washing
= ton. d. c.. who is in Wilmington TO
study its school buildings and re
port to the superintendent and
Board OF Education whether or not
&, would be possible TO use the work. /
study, play or platoon plan in any /
OF them, said last evening that II /
was quite possible for the system 10 I
be introduced here. and strongly I
recommended It.
in order 10 make parents appre- I
ciate the superiority OF this plan .
over the one which they had and /
which we had" said Mrs. Fer /
ynandes. 1--WE educators will have TO /
educate the public 10 the advan-
tages of the newer system. When 4
Ithe parents understand that voca-
tional education offers their child,
who is failing in the school OF the
[old type. an opportunity TO develop
MS particular aptltudes. they will be
|quick TO en- .orse II.
"All the cities that have tried the
Pplatoon system report that after
they introduced It In one school. the
system sold itself 10 the commu-
nifty"
W. G. Cox. OF the Pusey and Jones
Company. and OF the Manufacturers
|Association, which has largely sup
lported the vocational schools of
Wilmington. spoke briefly, saying
|that he wished to emphasize Mr..
Dennis point. that the pupils in the
Vocational classes should be thor
|ouEhly trained.
when a pupil comes in with a
certificate from a vocational school.
he said. I'VE must know just how
|much that boy or girl knows. and
|just how much an hour that GER
|tlfcate is worth to the boy or girl,
and the plant" il
superintendent David A. Ward, OF
|the Wilmington Public Schools,
|poke on the subject OF Making the
Schools Serve the Community" He
|;poke of the school as an instrument
|of society. and its purpose was to !
train young people better to fit
themselves for life in the communs-
|ty; that it was only through the
broader and richer curriculum that
his could be brought about.
G. L. Coppage. production man.
lager Of the Pusey and Jones Com {
|pany spoke on The Cooperation {
Necessary Between the Schools and
Industry to Develop the Mechanic j
|of Tomorrow"
Mr.. Coppage stated that the great 7
needs Of the Industries Is better c
drained mechanics IL this country 5
shall compete in the great markets q
|of the world. Mr.. Coppage stated q
that vocational training was going
10 prove a big factor in the solu v
tion Of this problem, and that it t
must be sold to the industries in j
order to get their proper co-opera-
tlon and support I
Charles Coke. principal OF the {
High School. spoke on Means and o
Methods OF Keeping Children in p
fchool." He emphasized the import
bnce OF keeping children interested
hnd busy; that this would go a long -
kay towards the solution of this
problem.
DR.. Victor d. Washburn, OF the
Board Of Education. spoke Of the
willingness and interest the Board -,
pf Education Is taking and of bring !.
'ng the schools of the city up to the =
highest standard of efficiency and !,
Rnriching the curriculum to make h
'he schools better TO serve the COM a
nunity.
r. w. Helm. State Director OF Vo- II
|ational Education in Delaware. .
hmmed up the efforts that are being h
'ut forth in vocational work in Will 2,
hington and enthusiastically sup u
'orted the program now under way. n
'fr. Helm emphasized the import
lnce of giving definite training 10 m
j ose who do not continue in the l.
Iigh school, in order that they might
ave the educational training neces-
ary to Immediately fit them for the
ndustrial life