The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-20
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aLDELCueG EEGlA k1Ee OEGf
the Council OF Administration OF the
state Teachers association in session
here today.
Too often the small town school
does not build for tina prsper develop
ment Of its young people in that It
trains them IN or creates in their
5linds q desire to get away from the
home community because OF lack of
knowledge Of their own community IN
terests and enjoyment" Professor VII
liams said The chief objective OF a
small town high school should be- TO
train young people for the activities of
rural life and rural leadership.
only a Few Graduate.
"OnIy ten Of every one hundred
toys and girls who enter the primary
grade ever graduate from high
school in the average community;
only Twenty-Five out OF ever one hun
dred OF the freshmen who enroll in a
high school ever graduate. and only
ten out Of every one hundred fresh
men who enroll in high school ever
go to college Can the community
high school, therefore, Justify its ex-
isteuce by maintaining as its chief
course Of study one that prepares for
college entranee2 The high school
should be concerned not with the ten
who may 90 TO college. in building It's
course OF study. but see 70 1t that the
course OF study more nearly meets the
needs of the ninety who will never go
to college. Vocational courses and
normal training courses should re-
ceive more serious consideration and
emphasis in building the curricula OF
the small town or rural high school,
Study Vocational Agriculture.
Vocational agriculture. home max
ing and trade and industry courses
are gaining wide recognition as filling
the long felt want, not only in rural
and small town high schools. but IN
cities as well Professor Williams said.
and aItho only IN their infancy and IN
need Of more adequate supervision and
administration. their tendency already
Is recog nized as having the desired re-
suit OF holding children in school and
wheltinE their desire for education
which otherwise might not have been
aroused He spoke in particular OF
the satisfactory results obtained from
vocational agriculture in rural schools
1T IS an interesting fact and a
matter of record" he said, that no
Kansas high school which has given
the vocational course more than
years trial has been willing to dis
pense with vocational work as a part
OF its course OF study. WIlh less tran
four years experience over seventy
five Kansas high schools have deil-
uitely committed themselves to voca-
rlonal agriculture work"
Better Educational System.
One OF the features Of the second
general session of the council of ad-
miuistraLiou, held Thursday night, was
the address BY Dr. NJ K Haggerty,
of the University of Minnesota, who
spoke On the subject Human Ability
and It's Just Rewards"
we are doing the educational Job
in America today, in a better way than
II has ever been done" said Dr. Hag-
gerry. We have brought upon our
selves an attitude on the part Of the
public that we are rather a miserable
type OF profession. but IN reality we
are carrying On now the greatest edu-
caionaI program ever conceived We
have come to the most differentiated
school pres gram in the history of the
world IN cur present American public
school system. The necessity of indus
trial training has forced itself into
the curriculum of the public schools
Our generation has come also I'd
have q changed view of childhood /
We have come TO recognize the verv
human character OF childhood The
child Is not merely q small adult he
IS an entirely different type OF being. !
and he has come to the point where
he must find seIf-expressio1 IN our
public schools"
Tells OF Educational Tests.
Doctor Haggerty. with three other
prominent educators. prepared the ne
1OEal intelligence tests now used in
the public schools IN speaking Of the
intelligence tests, Doctor Haggerty
stated that It was the war which
served to help the school system OF
America. as only twenty-five out OF
every one hundred men examined II
the secKd draft could read well
enough 70 pass the tests given to chill
dred in our third grades
superintendent scott Speaks.
Doctor Haggerty's speech was fol-
lowed by an address by Supt- z 4
- u OF Louisville. Ky. who spoke on
tls subject. Standards IN Supervisor
Are Cone
The time for Indifferent admins
riat on and supervision is gone ara
u hli-- fle road ahead IS encouraging.
We must Keep going on that path -