New York State Branch Of The National Society For The Promotion Of Industrial Education

Author : George M. Forbes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656003952
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book New York State Branch of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education written by George M. Forbes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New York State Branch of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education: The Factory School of Rochester In the broad sense, therefore, it is felt that public education should be vocational. And there is rank injustice, as our President has said, in the fact that the pupil who goes out of our elementary school to day to enter industrial life does so with absolutely no training or development which would help to open for him the door of opportunity. The President of the Chamber of Commerce of R0 chester says that the average boy of fourteen years of age is a nuisance in his factory. The boy of this age is generally looked upon in this way and is, there fore, locked out; and this is true because he has had no access in his school training to those things that are vital in industry. On the other hand the boys, his class-mates in the eighth grade, who go on through the high school into clerical positions, or on into col lege, find the doors open for them, to a very consider able extent at least, into commerce. But the other boy who would like to enter manufacturing from the ele mentary school, finds the door locked that leads to industrial life. The need, therefore, is to give that boy the same introduction into industry through a diploma given at the end of his course testifying to a training in the industry based upon a fund of practical scientific knowledge that will be recognized 1n the same way that the school diploma is now recognized in clerical or literary callings. His diploma should givehim the same privilege and the same chance to enter his chosen field as that of the other boys who enter com merce or college or profession. Our Factory School, therefore, is established simply in the interests of jus tice to enable the boy who so desires to go out from our school system into industrial life. Another consideration is that some of the boys in the elementary school cannot be stimulated by school work, but their brains can be awakened through their hands. Such boys are found as far down as in the fourth grade, big boys who, because they are out of place, are out of sorts, a nuisance to themselves and to their teachers, often ashamed of themselves and simply waiting to get a work certificate in order to get out of school. This lack of adaptation to the needs of such boys of the ordinary school curricula is one of the considerations that led up to the establishment of the Factory School. It is one of the indications, square and definite, that a school of this kind is required to meet the need. There are cases of boys in the school expelled as absolutely incorrigible, because they have too much energy and vitality. Such a waste of fine material is a crime. They are the very best type of boys for a difierent type of school, and they are entitled to an opportunity to properly develop their powers just as much as those who can adapt themselves to the conventional curricula. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.