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Show I OLD AND NEW HIGH SCHOOLS. Down at the .stockyards today students stu-dents of the high schools of Ogden and its vicinity are passing expert judgment on livestock and exports assure as-sure us that tho boys show remarkable remark-able ability. Educators of the old school must be writhing In their graves for it has not been many years since high schools were operated almost exclusively exclu-sively to prepare students to go to col-I col-I lege and it was almost sacrilege to I these old professors to teach boys and I girls something that would be of prac- tical use. Now the public is demanding that 1 the high school shall prepare boys and girls for life, not just prepare them I to go to a higher school. Tho taxpay- ers insist that the school be operated 1 to benefit the large percentage that j never gets to college, not the few who j do attend higher institutions of learn- I ing. Even ten years ago a graduate of (he scientific or classical course of a i" high school had scarcely anything to f equip him to go to work. The gradu ates of the commercial department, however, managed to get good jobs and hold them. I But now the tendency is toward I making all departments of high school I give students preparation that will en- I able them to get .and hold jobs that I is, perform useful work in the com- I munity. The progress in tho psst ten I years has been great and it promises I to be greater in the future. I Success achieved' by the agricultural I departments of high schools in teach- I Ing boys to bo good judges of live- I stock shows only a small part of the I new development In the modern theo-I theo-I ry of education. Industrial work Is I more and more receiving greater at-I at-I tention. |