The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY JANUARY 22, 1914. TRADE SCHOOLS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 19, 22 January 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY JANUARY 22, 1914. TRADE SCHOOLS.

.Tlii 5 importance of trade schools was recently urged by Professor Haims, of Harvard University. In the course of evidence before the Massachussetts Commission on Industrial Education, he said;—“Jioys are not wanted in most of the skilled industries until they are sixteen years of age. Inc total result is a greater number of boys and girls from fourteen to sixteen years of age, most of whom are at work in various kinds of juvenile occupations, in which they learn no fade, are subject to little, if any, beneficial general education, and often too much harmful education, from shifting ex-' perience and environment. Large numbers of these children would he in ■.chool it the school promised preparation for some life pursuit. These years are of little economic value to such children, and there is little increase in the economic value of most of thorn as time goes on. Hence, these are at present wasted years—lost to the children because of a lack of economic growth, and to the industries, iccausc the children are not fitted to satisfy the demand for trained work- . M's by the time they are old enough o be employed' in the trades. Hence '

the need of industrial schools to supplement the existing school system, and to meet a new education need which ms developed with the evolution of industry and commerce. Such schools would receive pupils of fourteen or fifteen years of age who declare their invention to learn a trade: and would, Mierefore, he parallel to the exist inn; public high schools, hut independent oi them. Such schools must be established as independent schools, because the motive or end for which they exist i —namely, vocational training as con-] trasted with genera] training—determines the value of the instruction in every detail,''