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Our Children, Our Schools, and Our Industries

Our Children, Our Schools, and Our Industries

Draper, Andrew Sloan

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151443603
ISBN13: 9781151443601
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 22
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908. Excerpt: ... definite aim and purpose about it all, and that our educational plans do not rationally meet our conditions. Neither Schools Nor Work For Children As the schools have developed on the literary, scientific, and professional sides, the indenturing system has practically disappeared. Few boys are now apprenticed to a trade. Indeed, many of the trades have either disappeared, or are so changed as to render the apprenticeship system impracticable. The increase of machinery, which does the work of many men, has led the older workmen who work with their hands to refiist the training of boys for their work in order to avoid more competition in their work than is imperative. It is even true that there are many less apprentices in the trades than the rules of the labor organizations approve. This leads to a shortage of skilled workmen, and to the complaint by manufacturers that they can not get competent workmen. People also complain that the schools do not fit children for any ordinary duties in the stores and offices and factories. It also keeps children from getting work of any kind when they leave the elementary schools. If they get work it amounts to little, and too often leads to nothing. All of the conditions taken together almost force children to keep on in the school system and go on toward the professional and managing vocations which are more than full, and for which they lack adaptation; or else be out of any kind of work for several years, As a fact, masses of them are out of school and also out of work for a long time, if not for all time. I shall not leave the entire responsibility for this either upon the parents or the children. Some of it must fall upon the provisions of the law; some of it is chargeable to the inefficiency with which school atten..

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