Show COOKING IN THE vocational SCHOOL factory legislation tho the eight hour law as well as some of the methods of modern industry are needed in many kitchens according to mrs iris prouty oleary whose bulletin on cooking as a training for homemaking home making vocational cat ional schools has just been issued by the united states bureau of education housekeeping lacks the spirit and inspiration of teamwork says mrs oleary the woman who has once been in industry misses the companionship to which she has been accustomed she finds herself therefore without a tangible incentive to sped and quality of work home making ou all other trades in the number of persons employed according to the bulletin of the 31 millions of women over 10 years old in the united states 24 millions are engaged in home making mrs 0 oleary leary points out that while girls may enter othen trades the great majority of women become at one time or other home makers wage earning for them is but a temporary affair which they will leave for a permanent position in their own homes the bulletin lays emphasis on the fact that cooking is a scientific process and should be taught as such especially in the new vocational schools that are being established libi ability lity to cook is something with which every girl is by tradition endowed no number of poor cooks seems to offset the belief that skill in this trade wil come at the call of necessity the aim of trade training in cooking thru the vocational schools is to teach the subject in such a way as to give actual ability to do this his work under home conditions and in a professional manner the bulletin deals solely with the teaching of cooking for homemaking home making purposes in the day and evening classes of the vocation schools such instruction st says the bulletin aims to develop appreciation and to give trade training the training should give manipulative skill and knowledge of materials to the extent of prodie ng a commercial product booking approached from the trade rather than the merely ul tural side demands experienc A d instructors and far more time than han is given in the regular day school which must necessarily ea each ch by the group method and dive ive but SO 80 hours a year to the th e subject |