SYLLABUS OP CIVIC PROBLEMS. 47 



Ibid., Vol. 1, No. 3: 19 — Eschenbrennor, J. J. "Day aud Night in a Vegetable 



Canning Factory." 

 Pamphlet No. 24G, National Child Labor Committee — "Street Workers." 

 Pamphlet No. 21G, National Child Labor Committee — Lovejoy, Owen. "A Brief 



for the Palmer-Owen Child Labor Bill." 

 Survey, 30: 167-72 — Hine, L. W. "Baltimore to Biloxi aud Back." 

 Literary Digest, 45 : 1110-2 — "Children in the Canneries." 

 Literary Digest, 45 : 1195-G — "Baby Toilers." 



Independent, 72 : 255-6 — Nearing, S. "Power Behind Our Silk Mills." 

 Technical World, 16 : 497-504 — Bache, R. "Shrimps and Babies." 



CHAPTER IX. 

 PUBLIC EDUCATION. 

 Section 1. The School. 



1. The School. 



a. School monej- — how apportioned aud obtained. 



b. Status of school system of California compared with other states. (See 



Russell Sage Report.) 



c. Board of Education — powers and duties. 



2. Purpose of the school. 



a. To train in culture. 



b. To train for ability to make a living. 



c. To train for citizenship. 



3. Vocational schools, aim : 



a. To show a child what he cau, and can not do. 



b. To supply a defect in education. 



c. To prepare him to make a living. 



d. To teach the foreigner the language, customs, and citizenship of this country. 



4. Continuation schools. 



a. May or may not be vocational. 



b. Correct defects in education. 



c. Give more facility in educational work. 



d. Train for shop work. 



e. Part time school — pupil i-eceives ^vage while in school. 



5. Evening schools. 



a. Not suited to immature youth. 



b. Useful to foreigner to teach language, customs, and civics of the United 



States, 

 c. Give training in manual aud domestic arts. 



6. Vocational schools — agricultural type. 



a. Aid in "back to laud" movement. 



b. Train for skilled agriculturists. 



Field Work. 



1. Make a list of all the different kinds of schools in your city. 



2. Indicate which are public, which private. 



3. Of the private schools which are teaching subjects that might be of advantage to 



have in the public school? 



4. Visit the shops of the high school manual training department. Girls visit the 



household arts department. Note the opportunities ahead of you for 

 acquiring skill, and for learning an occupation. 



5. Visit the agricultural fields of the high school. Learn whether the boys' school 



farm pays financially. 



6. Visit the night school. Note the personnel of the students. Observe the zeal 



with which the foi'eigners work. 



7. Learn why some persons have come to night school. Ask them. 



