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Show OB. E. G. eOWINS ON SCHOOL OF FUTURE Dr. E G. Gowans delivered a high ;ly Instructive lecture last night before 'the Sunday Night club in the Guild 1 hall of the Church of the Good Shop lhjrd, His Bubject was "The School 'of the Future,' and in part he said "In a strict sense it is not the pur-Ipose pur-Ipose of the school to prepare for life ;ur to launch the indnidual into life. 1 he school is a part of life Just as i infancy and childhood at home are a part of life. The old idea of a : school that 11 is a place to get ready Ifor life just as a steamer takes in ceal and makes ready for a jurney 'is disappearing. But it i hard to get rid of the old idea that education means book learning or the study of tft hnnlin "The purpose of education today is not merely the acquisition of knowledge knowl-edge but i he development of power masterly or selfphysioally, mentally, moralh and Its aim Is not to confer mere scholarship, but to qualify for individual and social efficiency. "Vocational education is an attempl to adapt school work to the needs of the people. It is a matter which hat to do both with individual efficiency and social efficiency. Society is an organization of vocational units high ly specialized and if education is to meet the demands of the people it. 1oo. must be specialized, which means vocationalized. In our desire to make education democratic we have reached I a stupefying uniformity and give all , children the same training whereas to be truly democratic education should give to each Individual the kind of training that fits him for his place in a vocationally segregated society. so-ciety. Each person in a republic is entitled to a training for his own life Vocational education has to do with social efficiency because vocation means nothing except as it relates to one's niche in the social structure " Dr. Gowans said that to be socially efficient requires of the individual that he be possessed of a clear conception con-ception of his relation to society and his consequent obligations. These obligations, ob-ligations, he continued. Includes all that makes for good citizenship, the ability to co-operate with others for the common good which moans a practical training in citizenship, and the desire to so co-operate which means that hp is fundamentally moral in his character Of the school of tomorrow. Dr Gowans said" "The school of tomorrow should pro wro first, playgrounds, gymnasiums, swimming pools with proper supervision supervi-sion for the work which means phys- ical power, second, libraries, class rooms and recitation rooms for thi study of hooks, third, an auditorium where as Superintendent William Wirt says 'By lectures, recitals, dramatization dramatiza-tion phonograph, player piano, stere opticon lantern and moving pictures the visual and auditory education ol the child may be done efficient! ; and fourth, shops, drawing rooms lab oratories, domestic science kitchens dining rooms, gardens farms, animah aJid other means of vocational training where the child may gain sympoth through labor with human vocations, and thus lay the foundation for true culture and prepare for a life of ser vice. ' This four-aided arvangptnent give, only One-fourth of a child's school timp to the formal school room study of books probably qultp enough but I the remainder of his time is filled with real life activity If a part of this life activity can be furnished and supervised by the mother in the bojhc or the father in the shop or the store i or bank or office or on the farm, so much the better This, however, i? a part of the problem of adaptation to j be worked out by each community" Dr Gowans said that the auditor urn work which forms so important a part of the lives of thp citizens of republic re-public can well hp begun in the school not only because it furnishes rui h i plendid opportunity for instruction instruc-tion by nipans of lectures, the drama, the moving picture, concerts, and so torth. but because if gUes opportu-D opportu-D 1 for training in the art of practical prac-tical citizenship. "As a believer in the efficacy of true education " said Dr. Gowans in conclusion, not legislation so much, except as it follows and expresses the id-' -.Is of education to cure and finally final-ly by prevention to abolish these social so-cial ills. 1 advocate the wider iiro nf the school plant because II means trade Instruction tor the unemployed who are naualh unskilled vocational ly, manual training as a preparation for vocational skill, vocational and employment bureaus in the social enters, Information about civic af-and af-and the pressure of enlightenel citizenship in the prevention of graft .tnd crime, the awakening of the spirit Of civic brot herliness through men's and women's clubs, the sociability which obliterates class distinction and social stratification the continuation of the processes of education into the period of adult life the promotion of the public health the furnishing of in ommerciallzed amusement to the young people, the rehabilitation of the unsatisfactory home and the consequent conse-quent prevention of juvenile delln-quem delln-quem y and the development of what may be fittingly called the eugenic conscience, the attitude of the individual indi-vidual to the race that would pre rent him if unfit from prorogating his kind, a thing that will do more than all the eugenic legislation that Lias er been proposed " oo -- |