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IS NEEDEDThe existing public school system was shaped to meet the needof an earlier time and is the out-♦f | growth of conditions that existed then. Of 127 boys in public schools one reaches college. Yet the whole school course, from grammar grades to high school is shaped for him. The other 126 boys receive a primary education that fits them for nothing in particular.Of every 100 boys ninety en gage in manual work. All the boys attending school can not find places as clerks m stores, banks and offices, nor as doctors and lawyers. Yet for such work our public schools attempt to train them all. Industrial and agricultural training must now become a part of the primary school course. We must create the new American school. Our professional educatojs—earnest men and women—are too much cut off from contact with active life to feel the industrial needs of our time. Business men must give the impulse. Industrial education in public schools is the hugely important thingThis is the doctrine set forthbjt Edward A. Rum ley, head ofthe big concern of that name atLaporte. To prove his faith in his doctrine, Mr. Rumley last year started the Interlaken boys school on a 700 acre farm between Laporte and South Bend. The school is oond noted upon the German plan that indnstrial and agricultural training must be animportant part of the educationie | obtained m the primary schools tr I of America. The boys have not only pursued their book studies but have built a house of twelve rooms for the superintendent, constructed a gymnasium with baths and installed an electrical system for all the buildings, efaicb they maintain as wety ft*
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Reynolds Journal
Reynolds, Indiana, US
Wed, Jun 12, 1912
Page 8
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