The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-01
GARY SCHOOL
PLAN TRAINS
mental ROBOTS
Platoon System Good
for Pluto Class
BY KARL REEVE.
(Staff Writer, Daily Worker)


GARY, Ind, Sept. 3o.-The
Gary school plan, or the platoon
school system, is the last word
in the dictatorship of the capt.
taIist class of large employers
as to what the children of the
workers shall study. Ebert II.
Gary, head of the steel trust,
has been busy for many years
in all parts of the country en-
deavoring to establish his plan
of employers control of work.
ers' education.
The platoon school system
has three main features-the
importation of industrial work
into the school, the department
alization of study even in the
elementary grades and the ma
chine-like standardization of
each study which is controlled
by a supervisor.
The dictation by supervisors Of ex-
actly what each teacher should give
out to the pupils makes it easy for
the employers, thru control of these
supervisors, to dictate the entire edu-
cational training of the children
wherever the platoon schools prevail
The dictatorship of the capitalist
class thru these supervisors is an at
tempt to drive liberal thot out Of the
schools and further establish the
"goose-step" described in Upton Sin
clair's book Of that name.
Capitalist Dlctation.
1.-THE real thing in the Detroit sys.
tenn was the fact that somebody or
some bodies were debating and dom
mating to the last detail the teaching
Of every subject" one of the commit
tee of nine Chicago teachers who in
vestigated the platoon schools of De.
troit for the Chicago Teachers FEEDER
alton, reported few months ago.
81 met the same material every
where, even the same sort of presen.
tation of that material. The teachers,
so far as they took any part in the
presentation of that material at all,
seemed to say pretty much the same
thing. The children all talked alike
and everything seemed to be uniform
all over the city.
Supervisors In Plenty.
1.-THE reason, / found, is that in De-
troit they have supervisor of social
science, a supervisor of literature, a
supervisor Of music, a supervisor of
art, supervisor Of physical education
a supervisor of safety education and
a supervisor of health education.
think this uniformity is very danger.
Gus. l hope l shall never live to see
a world where all people act alike and
talk alike and think alike, if they
think at all.
Efficiency, the efficiency of the
business world, is the watchword of
The Detroit schools.
This is indeed the goose-step in the
public schols of America. And the
system of supervisors is a part of the
Gary plan, and was established in 1906
when Ebert Gary and the steel trust
founded the town of Gary and made
her school system nucleus for the
propagation of the Gary or platoon
school system plan, which eliminates
thinking, but produces industrial
robots.
Judge Gary Busy.
The activity of Ebert Gary in at
tempting to establish this dictation
turnout the country has been wide
spread and persistent. On last Janu-
airy, even the conservative Hearst pup
pet, Mayor Hylan of New York City,
mixed up in a political squabble, re-
vealed that Gary was active in per-
meating the educational system of
New York City with his industrial
slave" idea.
THE people Of this city know what
an uphill fight it has been to make
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