Deseret Evening News | 1908-12-19 | Page 47 | Defects of Our Educational System

DEFECTS OF OUR EDUCATIONAL ED SYSTEM For l Ol all 11 the educational system seems to bo ho aware evory boy who enters the primary grades expects to graduato spend four foul years in II high school pass to college and eventually become a t professional or business man The schools do 10 not seem to know that any women outside o the teaching profession earn their living That thousands up upon upon on thousands thousands of children girls as well wel ay 1 boys bO 5 are aro obliged by hy tho hard hor con conditions dions of or life to go to work with their hands holds at the ago of 14 1 seems to utterly unknown Tho ho best proof that tha tho educational system has lagged behind is tho fact that it is Impossible to Induce tho great grell majority of children ehl ren to remain In school a 0 day t longer louger than s them th m to They flee from the school ro jl at 11 1 of o fo them to go go to orli P I and tho rest of them to work f Thoy Ih y to learn to live lye nn riMY 1 f fUN aro UN not taught that lesson In tilt th schoolroom At f tho time the tho public school system i iwan 1 was wan placed on a national basis all t y s educators were agreed on one common j f fIcal Ideal Ical was that tle schools s 11 lt r r rho bo ho democratic Course of ot study must IS T n be he founded on t theory of o tho i It r r lute equality of oC all ni American citizens I Therefore the th curriculum was ar f ranged as a 1 series of ot ladders leading it I from tl tho primary School chol to the gram grm rt 1 j jI mar mal school from Cl m tho to grammar school tV It f to tho high school from tho hIgh j j I school to college and from college to the lou o II This was to bo a dema Kj h I f program It I was IS in tact fact fW I ly J aristocratic Inco It redounded to tp at a tho advantage of tho children of the tha pro and unc tho Intellectual classes Fully 95 n per cent of school children beyond tho grammar AJ grades and nc less leas than 2 pur pel cent at oC high school pupils pass on to college collego 11 Now 11 a I truly democratic system oC or I 1 public school administration would uso us I facts fiets for ItH It I main hash basis Since an overwhelming majority of children will vU never II more tor education than th n 1 they thoy get in elementary schools tho pro Pt J i iper h per pel elementary school would be he nota no f link In a chain a preparatory depart department f 1 ment m nt of the high hll hut but a I complete thing In Itself Itsel a complete education oC oCa f a 0 nr practical nature Its I object o t would bo be to foi COI a 1 j 1 1 world w of oC Industrial hiI us trIal pul 1 1 r Dorr in tho Delineator I f