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Show MORE VIRILITY IS NEEDED Spread of Vocational Training Would Add Desired Masculine Vigor to the School System. The nation is beginning to feel a luck in the virility of American education. educa-tion. I heard a very indignant man of Intelligence affirm the other day that pacifism was a part of the whole feminist regime in the schools, Frederick Fred-erick H. Davenport writes in the Outlook. Out-look. We are caught in the toils this I moment, said he, of "woman teachers anil our ehautauquas." I would not go so far. Some of the most eager and militant patriots I know just now are woman teachers. But there is no question ques-tion that American education is suffering suffer-ing enormously from the decline 'of masculinity in the school system. Under a genuine sort of vocational training in country and city for the needs of the nation men would by the very force of circumstances again fill, n very great number of desirable places of educational leadership. The head of practically every township school and experimental farm would be a man. And the unusual duties that lie would perform would necessitate adequate payment in order to get the nan. So in the schools of trade and industry in-dustry in the cities the masculine element ele-ment would predominate in the control. con-trol. A great number of the practical teachers at bench and machine would he men. And thus in country and city the training of youth would be permeated per-meated with a masculine vigor of great value to the United States as a whole. |