Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1914 — What to do With Our Boys. [ARTICLE]

What to do With Our Boys.

The business man askes that the school send boys to him In good health, mentally, morally and phy-, sloaily; that the boys have vim, energy, and hustle—by whatever name you care to call that greatest blessing in life, the Joy in work, says James D. Munroe, prominent Boston manufacturer. Does ~ur present academic training do this? During the school years the boys’ muscles need every development. He needs to use the large muscles of his trunk, his legs, and his arms, and you chain him down to a desk. He rebels, for he knows the kind of work In which he belongs. The boy who, more than any other human being likes to work, you give a training which makos film hate work, and you send him to us hating work. Industrial education will change these things. It can be done in open workshops or out of dooTs. It will give the boy the variety he craves; it will give him work for his muscles. Best of all, the boy wllll be doing things. That Is what the boy wants, to do some- - thing. And we set him down at a desk to learn what somebody else did five thousand years ago.