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said that mere training in moral precepts and the development 

 of character will not meet that case. Man is a triune being. 

 He has his physical, his mental and his moral side. Develop- 

 ment in any one of these is not sufficient to make out of him 

 a man who will fit into his environment and be the kind of man 

 that he ought to be. He should be developed in all three. 



I wish to present some of the methods that have been tried 

 in America and in Europe to meet the condition which I have 

 described, the need of a larger body of men trained for a voca- 

 tion. How shall that need be met? The answer that comes 

 from the hps of many very glibly is, by establishing trade 

 schools. I am using that term "trade" in its larger sense, to 

 include any sort of a vocation that requires skill and training. 

 Certain it is that the trade schools, properly managed, under 

 proper conditions, would meet the need, but there are certain 

 difficulties that it is worth while to consider. 



In the first place, the trade school is exceedingly expensive. 

 If you were to establish in Bangor or any of the cities or the 

 towns of Maine, a trade school, you would find that the per 

 capita cost would be very great. The best estimates growing 

 out of experience in this matter, show that in a trade school 

 the cost per pupil is from three to seven times the cost per 

 pupil in an ordinary school. 



In the second place, it is very difficult, if not entirely impos- 

 sible, to reproduce in a school, actual shop conditions. The 

 greatest difficulty that has been encountered by trade schools 

 already in operation is found just here. It is very difficult to 

 get a man who knows a trade and who, at the same time, is 

 competent to teach it to a group of young people. The skilled 

 workman cannot teach and the competent teacher is not a 

 skilled mechanic. Another very great difficulty is that of the 

 economic use of material. It is difficult under school condi- 

 tions to have material used under trade conditions so that 

 proper economy is looked after ever}^ time. 



Another form of school that has been tried with considerable 

 success is what is known as the ''part time" school. It is pos- 

 sible because of a cooperation between the organized school of 

 the community and some factory or factories of the same com- 

 munity. Those young people who wish to learn a particular 

 trade go into that factory for a half day; or they go into the 



