V0lTi3 OCTOBER 14, 1910 NO. 14
Trades Schools
The Indian schools of the country have
from their inception fostered the idea of
industrialism in connection with text
book study. In these schools the trades
are carried forward by the pupils, hand
in hand, with the academic courses. In
the trade scheme as part of an education
the Indian schools have been leaders,
and Chemawa has been well to the fore
in this work, being able confidently to
declare that she is a leader industrialjy.
However, the example set by the various
Indian schools has at last come to be
followed throughout the country and
the idea is growing steadily day by day.
Many of our public schools of the cities,
and ruial districts as well, are imbued
wilh the idea and are working along such
lines, as is evidenced by the following
from an exchange:
'I here is a strong movement in Indian
apolis looking to the establishment of trade
schools in that city, and out of the inter
change of views thereby occasioned one
point will be new . in some places and in
teresting in all where the idea of voca
lional education has taken root. Professor
Brandon, a local educator of prominence,
not only favors the establishment of the
proposed trade school, outlining a
plan for the work, but recommends that
elemental training being in the grade
schools He is of the opinion that the
boys of the grade school, as part of their
education, should be taken through shops
and factories. In this way, he believes,
they will be afforded a much better oppor
tunity than they have now of "finding
the:nselves"; that is, of choosing a trade
intelligently. By beginning early there
will be time for academic work, for then
manual training will not be crowded into
the closing school.
All this in the direction of growth,and
the Star of the city named, approving
of Professor Brandon's very properly
turns to another satisfying phase of de
velopment This is the union of manual
training and vocational work that is
being tested practically this year in
Providence, R. I. Here a course of in
dustrial training has been opened in con
nection with the city's technical high
school. This course, it appears, will
combine a technical high school edu
cation with practical work at a trade, it
being made possible for the pupil to
earn $600 during the complete course of
four years. The first year is made pro-
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