Show industrial EDUCATION EACH succeeding year the concession is more frequently made that the education which a young man receives at such institutions as yale and harvard does not fit him for the work and struggles of an active life in these days of bustle and utilitarianism in consequence ot of this growing sentiment industrial features are being widely introduced into the schools oi of df different ferent states of the union the tendency is to teach pupils to use their hands as well as their brai brains fi to five give destructions in mechanics as well wel as in the classics and to establish an aa equilibrium between the practical and tue tae scholastic ln in some of the public schools of new york ci city ty classes of girls are instructed in cooking and other branches of domestic economy are taught how to cut and make their own clothes and to repair those of the family and to keep a house in order boys are taught in carpentry louse house painting and other useful trades as well as in book learning I 1 lne he more rapid the spread of such additional instruction in the schools the better it tends to develop the innate powers of human beings and these in a strictly financial sense are amon among the greatest sources oi of wealth and add prosperity that exist technological education of this character Is what the kindergarten leads to when developed to suit the capacity of older pupils the introduction of Fr system with the improve ments which the practical demands of the age require and witti which that system is in hearty sympathy is effecting a marked change in the character of schoolwork school work pupils we are rendered more independent dependent li because more capable of wresting from the elements the abe means of subsistence faculties that under the old methods of instruction lay lav nearly or wholly dormant during tl the 1 pupils term of school life are by the new ways brought into active service durina the most of t tat period briod the teachers of tl ti is territory show commendable zeal ii in their endeavors to krep keep of the times and they have bave need to be on the alert in the work of no other profession are improvements prove ments and new methods da beins being more rapidly introduced that of the school teachers the instructors in the schools find it necessary to study all the time in order to keep ar with the progress that is ia being made |