Education for Industrial Workers Author:Herman Schneider Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VIII EDUCATION PRIOR TO GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT THE problem naturally divides into the following major and minor headings: 1. Education prior to gai... more »nful employment. a. Elementary training for work generally. b. Specific training for a given occupation. 2. Education accompanying gainful employment. c. The cooperative system. d. The continuation system. ELEMENTARY TRAINING FOR WORK GENERALLY The differentiated instruction which children under fourteen years of age should receive for further schooling and for future usefulness is discussed elsewhere (in Dr. McMurry's report on the course of study). This report deals specifically only with the vocational education of children over fourteen years of age. Under this heading, therefore, there remains the problem of general prevoca- tional training for children over fourteen years of age. PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOLS FOR CHILDREN OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE The particular problem presented here is that of the child who does not intend to finish high school, who is not permitted by law to enter certain skilled trades until theage of sixteen, and who can afford to go to school only a year or two more, after which he or she must go to work. There is also the type of child who is school-sick because the book work of the schools is distasteful and even irksome; work in the store or factory is more attractive. The teacher realizes, too, that further abstract instruction is almost wholly a waste of time and effort; and it is evident also that, since the pupil will go to work within a year or two, some definite vocational training should be given him. These are the hardest years of boyhood for which to plan. The boy, being a boy, wants to do things; he wants to be out of doors; he wants to build; he wants to ear...« less