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Show SCHOOLS TO BE BROADENED Dr. Gowans Outlines Policy For tin Next Two Years. Schools of the future will bi broadened to include in the curriculum curricu-lum instruction on social and mora t.uestions so as to create a greater e. j.ciency, and by so doing insure a greater and broader citizenship, ac cording to Dr. E. G. Gowans, stai-superintendent stai-superintendent of public instruction-elect. instruction-elect. The educator points to the need of the present school system and dt i lared that progress, greater tha-.hat tha-.hat recorded since the inception c educational institutions, would be made in the future. The importance of vocational training was dwelt upon up-on at length by Dr. Gowans, who ar gued that it was a factor, for in the strides toward greater and more com prehensive industrial and social independence. in-dependence. Dr. Gowans reviewed the school situation in the United States and credited the pioneers in the educational educa-tional industry with a foresight and a vision which, he said, must be the possession of the educators and public pub-lic at large today if they expected to endow the future generation with a heritage that was given to them to transmit on a broader plan. Dr. Gowans used statistics to show that a large per cent of the crime was committed by individuals with little or no intellectual, moral or physical phy-sical training and declared that vocational voca-tional training along the lines to which the individual especially adapted not alone would reduct crime to a minimum, but work for a greater and grander citizenship. The educator based many of hit observations upon his experience as superintendent of the state industrial school, where he had a chance to i watch the development of the pupils many of whom were brought to thi institution in a state that told of th or no home training. Outlines Original Plan. Dr. Gowans outlined a plan for th. school of the future, which, he said would be provided with the necessar; departments and courses of instrui tion that would make attendance thi year round instead of from eight ii nine months of the year desirabh This school, he Baid, would invite i community interest permitting th' congregation of old and young, which would it Bure closer relations and better general understanding of thi problems of life. Dr. Gowans said in part: "In a strict sense it is not th' purpose if the school to prepare fo life or t'i launch the individual kite life. Th i school is a part of. life jus. as infancy and childhood at home arc a part cf life.. The old idea of a school tli at it is a place to get ready for life just as a steamer takes in coal and makes ready for a journey is dis-appearir. dis-appearir. But it is hard to get rid of the oi l idea that education mean: book learning or the study of text books. I "The purpose of education today i not merely the acquisition of know! edge, but the development of power-masterly power-masterly or self-physically, mentall: morally, and its aim is not to confe mere scl olarship, but to qualify fo ndividu; 1 and social efficiency. "Vocati mal education is an attemp '.o adapt school work to the needs o the people. It is a matter which hp to do both with individual effle'lene and social efficiency. Society is a-organization a-organization of vocational units high ly specialized and It education !b tr meet the demands of the people it tot must be specialized, which means vo-cationalized. vo-cationalized. In our desire to make oducatior democratic we have reached reach-ed a stupefying uniformity and give ill children the same training, where-is where-is to be truly emprja.!,ife)jjaiion '.hould Kive to yach'VWTlividuaf thp find of t.-aining"that?fits' him for his place in a vocationally segregated bo-ciety. bo-ciety. Each person In a republic is entitled to a training for his own lifo. Vo'catfonal etfucation baa to do -wfth. 11 j J .ocial efficiency because vocation neans nothing except as it relates to i tie's ni?he in the social structure." |