Show AN EDUCATED BOOR some one should call andrew andiew S draper new york otate of education to one side and quietly advise him to close his mouth in lit an k address before now new members rs of the new york summer school he startled tart leq his hie auditors by practically advocating vo cating in an opening address that american school children should noc no bd ba taught to rise out of the class in which they ire are born in foreign countries he said boag expect i to follow their fathers andare and arc expected to stay in the class where they begin here all are encouraged cou raged to move out of their class and ana do a more intellectual kind of work tha than their fathers did in other words our educational system acting upon our national temperaments often beads children into mischief it often encourages them to undertake for which they are not fitted 1 I think we make a mistake in tell lug jug the child that he can be president of the united states it is not a mistake to tell him that he is eligible but we do not ot explain the remoteness of the j we err in describing scribing the road for reaching distinction f some of the students they are arc nearly all teachers were indignant on hearing these remarks aua ana denounced them as un american commissioner Draper roade 0 t siem m in an lacross appealing for more industrial education in the public schools some radical readjustment ho baid Is apparently necessary to maintain the intellectual and industrial equilibrium of the nation wo ave a attempt t to do a 41 great deal more than moat other countries do to the end that every boy and every girl may have a chance i 1 our present educational system trains for purely cultural 4 professional and vocations to the exclusion of the industrial in the next twenty five years the equilibrium will haave laave lave to be restored |