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Show INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION THE LIMIT Public school taxes are increasing faster than all others and a strong organization is at work to establish new fads and functions. Rudiments of music, manual training train-ing for boys, domestic science for girls, gardening and agriculture for all should be the limit. Full fledged business colleges ar? being established in high schools and every girl a stenographer and every boy a bookkeeper is the slogan. The ability to sing, wood work and metal work for boys, needle work and cooking for girls and to produce from the soil are universal needs. Millinery, typewriting, dramatic art, basketball, cafeterias, Greek letter let-ter societies, preparing fancy salads, and serving pink teas are not. Nine children out of ten who go to public schools are going to be working people and education to enable en-able them to exist is vital. To educate them all out of the pro-ducing pro-ducing class and into a semi-professional idea of living by soft-handed employments is a great mistake. Manual training turns boys' minds to channels of useful labor, domestic training directs girls' minds toward home life. A knowledge of growing things from the soil will help many of them to supply the family table and keep down the high cost of living, i. Public education for the masses j must be more directed to making the . average man and woman self-sustaining in the home and family life. |