Show I OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS American System of Public Education Far Less Practical Than That of Germany The general public school education of the country is complacently believed by the majority of ot people to be the best in the world There are some however who insist that much of ot our education is unpractical and does not fit the youth of or the country for the actual actual ac no hard knocks of life and that our school system should include a much greater preparation of industrial work An examination of German educational educational educational methods places the United States at an disadvantage e in this r re re- re gard An instance of this is seen in a series of newspaper articles published in Frankfort Germany by Mr Heln Heln- rich Back the director of ot the Frankfort Frankfort Frankfort Frank Frank- fort Industrial School who has been twice sent by the German Government to study the industrial schools of this country Mr 11 Back expresses surprise that we ire have bave not provided in our school system for training our citizens in iii special directions instead of ot leaving the establishment of trade industrial and technical schools to the enterprise of ot individuals or the generosity of ot philanthropy The result is that thai a comparatively comparatively comparatively com com- small number of these schools are found in certain favored parts of the United States while in the major portion of the country little opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- opi op- i is offered boys to obtain practical practical and thorough Instruction and to increase their value to the nation by converting themselves into trained workmen The German Government on the theother theother theother other hand maintains in every part t of the empire good trade industrial and technical schools drilling the youth of the country and sending them out each an expert or 01 a trained specialist to play a n useful and intelligent ent part in inthe inthe inthe the great battle of international com com- merce |