SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— L. 435 



The results of the day continuation school and of the elementary school 

 compared at thirty years of age. 



The influence of the day continuation school over the functional changes 

 at fifteen to sixteen and its importance for citizenship. 



The problem : not education of the child but education of the adolescent. 



The merging of interests in the adolescent — education, home, employ- 

 ment and citizenship. 



Dr. J. P. McHutchison. — Courses of instruction for unemployed 

 juveniles (11.20). 



These courses conducted by education authorities, as required by Part VI 

 of the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1935, have as their main purpose the 

 prevention of the demoralisation which would otherwise threaten the 

 welfare of unemployed boys and girls during adolescent years. With 

 some experience of such part-time education on a voluntary basis, the 

 writer welcomed the statutory extension of the work and the fuller oppor- 

 tunity of providing a training more purposeful than ordinary schooling and 

 more related to the needs, moral, social and physical, of the young people 

 in actual life. 



Taking as their objective the all-round fitness of the boy or girl, the 

 Junior Instruction Centres have already developed an educational view- 

 point of their own and, evoking the loyalty and wholehearted co-operation 

 of the juveniles themselves, have become hives of industrious effort, 

 physical fitness and pleasant comradeship, thus providing a training in true 

 manliness and womanliness and creating worthy young citizens. 



Mr. W. B. Henderson (11.40). 



(1) Explain briefly how from being an opponent of, I became a convert 

 to, part-time continued education. 



(2) Why I think education and labour going on side by side is a good 

 thing. 



(3) A short account of the experiment conducted by Messrs. C. & J. 

 Clark, Ltd., Street. 



(4) The attitude towards the experiment of (a) the boys and girls ; (b) the 

 parents ; (c) the directors ; (d) the foremen ; (e) the trade union. 



Mr. A. Abbott (12.0). 



A complete vocational training includes two essential elements — practical 

 experience and theoretical instruction. Both may be provided, as is usual 

 on the Continent, in the technical school itself. In England, the ordinary 

 method is for business to give the practical training and schools the theo- 

 retical instruction. This involves close co-operation between the firms and 

 the schools. The school is doing its part by providing ' grouped courses 

 of instruction ' in its evening classes : some firms have organised the 

 practical training of their learners, but many more should do so. 



Students in evening technical schools are not working merely for the 

 satisfaction of their own ambitions. They are contributing to the welfare 

 of both their industry and the nation, and to require them to devote nearly 

 all their leisure during half the year to study throws on them too great 

 a share of the burden of increasing our industrial and commercial efficiency. 

 It is desirable, in spite of the trouble and expense it involves for their 



