Reasons for a Technical Day School.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 10, 1 August 1907, Page 371

Reasons for a Technical Day School.

(From a memorandum by the Director, Mr. John H. Howeix.) A lad leaves school f ronTtwelve to fourteen years of age and is sent to the office or to the shop. If the parents are anxious about the lad's education and he is industrious, he may be sent to the evening classes for three or foar nights a week. This means that for half the week the lad leaves work at five or sometimes six, goes home to change and tea, back to classes at seven, and home between 9-30 and 10 p.m. Moreover, if he is to profit to the full, home work must be done equal to at least another evening's work. Any teachei will realise how little can in general be accomplished under these circumstances. This proves the vital necessity for a technical da> school. Suppose on the other hand, that the lac postpones attending evening classes until h( is seventeen. Experience shows that^for th< most part the habits of spending the evening formed in the intervening years are hard t t< break through/ and where the effort is mad. the power to profit by instruction is to a larg