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the matters pertaining to the industry ; for mental rather 

 than manual effort. The other utilizes manual skill, does not 

 call for an advanced education, but recognizes intelligence 

 and an elementary knowledge of the purposes involved. It 

 is evident that the kind of education required to prepare 

 men for these two phases of an industry is quite different. 



We are already training men for industrial management, 

 although not rapidly enough to meet the demand ; but little 

 or nothing is being done for the operative phases of indus- 

 try, although it seems to me the need is quite as great. 



The point that I desire to emphasize is, that provision 

 should be made for instruction and trainino^ of a kind which 

 has definite relation to, and is for the benefit of, the great 

 mass of industrial workers. Ol^viously such training must 

 be brought within the reach of the masses of the people for 

 whom it is intended. The}^ will not voluntarily seek it, 

 nor can they, if they would, go far to search for it. Such 

 training should therefore be given in all public schools, 

 particularly in those grades upon which attendance is com- 

 pulsory, since the greater number of children do not attend 

 elsewhere. I should not like to be understood as advocating 

 turning the public schools into trade schools, and abolishing 

 from the curriculum any fundamental and important subject 

 now taught there. Nevertheless, it does seem as if the 

 public schools had in mind solely the training of a class of 

 pupils who are expected to advance into higher grades of 

 instruction. They seem to be getting ready, but never 

 doing ; to ignore the child who is not going into the high 

 school and college, but must soon earn his living, and who 

 finds neither in the school nor anywhere else encouragement 

 or helpful training relating thereto. 



AVhy should not the pul)lic schools be brought more 

 closely into relation with the life of the pupils, to the end 

 that they and their parents may feel that the training there 

 given them has some definite connection with their life 

 work? If in a given school nine-tenths of the pupils come 

 from working families, why should the instruction be for 

 the benefit of the one-tenth only ; probably conforming to 

 a uniform system in which industrial conditions are entirely 



