Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — Save Time For Industrial Training by Omitting Nonessential Studies [ARTICLE]

Save Time For Industrial Training by Omitting Nonessential Studies

By L. E. WOLFE,

Former Superintendent of Schools, Memphis, Tenn.

AS A GENERAL RULE, IT IS THE FARMER BOY WHO IS TAKING THE HONORS AT OUR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. BE CAUSE ON THE FARM THE CROPS ENGAGE THE ATTENTION DURING THE SUMMER AND THE FARM CHORES ARE UNUSUALLY HEAVY ON SATURDAYS IS NO REASON WHY SCHOOLS SHOULD NOT CONTINUE ON SATURDAYS AND DURING THE SUMMER IN CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES. AGAIN, TIME CAN BE SAVED FOR INDUS TRIAL TRAINING BY OMITTING FROM THE COURSE OF STUDY MUCH THAT IS NONESSENTIAL AND BY TRAINING OUR TEACHERS IN EF FICIENCY. THE TEACHING OF HABITS OF THRIFT AND INDUSTRY, AS HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED AGAIN AND AGAIN, SO QUICKENS AND STRENGTHENS THE INTELLECT AS TO ENABLE THE LEARNER TO MAKE MUCH GREATER PROGRESS IN A GIVEN TIME. r » *► A great improvement could, be made by IXSTALUIXG AX IXDUSFIJAL PF.AX I IX L\ I*. 11A (Of XT R \ SC lIOOL, purchasing at t a twenty acre trmt near- the school, building the teacher a home upon Ur- ’r.i aryl employing the teacher the year around that he might train tli • farm boys to make repairs to machinery and demonstrate the best methods in agriculture and horticulture. However, to CONFIXE “SCHOOL WO I! K IX CITIES, TOWNS AXO VILLAGES TO .-BOOKS is quite is -iup;d as to carry a rock in one end of a sack and the grain in the other because it was done hv a parent.