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Show m PUBLIC AND PRIVATE K- SCHOOLS BHi A glance over magazines and news- Bb papers at this tlmo of year shows an BBj enormous number of advertisements BY , of private schools, academies, semi- BBj narlcs, etc. The number of boys and BBj irls sent away to such schools bo- BB foro collego ago Is very large. Many BB parents feel It Is nn advantage for BB them to bo thrown on their own re- BB sources and develop self rellnhco. BB Tho older theory was that it was BE' doslrablo for, young people to attend BB high schools In their own town or BBV their neighborhood. It was argued PBL that this g.ivu them a better ncqualn- BBP tiuicc jn their own locality. As they BBJ wcro likely then to settlo down at BB somo work in their home places, this PPT I local acquaintance had its value. PPJ Today young people scatter widely. PPJ Tho members of a high school grnd- PH uatlng class drop out of sight so PPJ that this argument of local acnunln- PPJ tnnco has lesB value. PH A distinguished educator once re- PPJ marked that the boys who graduated Bpj from private schools come to college PPJ better prepared than high schcol PPJ graduates. Hut he said that at the V clones of the college course, tho high PH school graduateH are npt to stand bet- BH tcr. Apparently the reason Is tluit PH prlvato school pupils nro often rich PH men's sons who have never felt tho BBJ j necessity of working. BH t Prlvato schools undoubtedly turn PBM out llnlslicil gentlemen nnd ladles. In J this rcllned environment they noiulro V. manners and courtesies that are too B apt to bo lacking In high school pu- BBpJ Jills. Good manners nro one of tho PBB biggest nssets in llfo. But they aro W not everything. B It is. a rather serious thing to send S boys and girls away from homo at an BBM Immature ago. Tho scholastic advnn- a tages may bo nil that could bo wish- BBV cd, but meanwhile unwholesomo ns- BkH soclatlons may bo formed. Dcforo BBS sending thorn to a distant school one H ought to bo quite posltlvo that tho PBB educational facilities near homo aro BBB not adapted to sccuro the best re- |
