Our Schools in War Time—and AfterDean, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
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Our Schools in War Time—and After
Dean, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
Education -- United States; World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Schools
While the part-time plan offers excellent opportunities for advancing
selected workers in order that they may acquire certain technical
knowledge, it is doubtful whether much of this work during this
emergency period can be done in the public or private industrial and
trade schools. We all know that certain industrial concerns have
established part-time schools in their plants. These classes in the
works are especially adapted, in the present emergency, for training
selected workers to become specialists and foremen. If the school is
near the plant, so that industrial workers can attend for part-time
day instruction for a period of six or eight hours a week without loss
of time or without interfering with production, it may be possible to
develop some part-time courses in the schools, but, generally speaking,
it would be better for the instructors in these schools to go directly
to the plants themselves and give this part-time instruction there. In
another chapter mention will be made of a feasible part-time system
and the necessity for some such system, but it refers only to boys and
girls between fourteen and sixteen years old who belong primarily in
school and not primarily at work. It is assumed that the group of which
we have been thinking is the older group of workmen who wish to become
foremen.
[3] "Vocational Education and Government Service," News-letter issued
by National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, October,
1917.
[Illustration: War needs open new fields for schools. After the war,
stereotyped courses in trade schools and technical institutes will have
lost their hold. Dunwoody Institute (Minneapolis, Minnesota) is one of
the few schools having a training course for bakers.]
[Illustration: An example of an effective adaptation to a national
need. Dunwoody Institute meeting a shortage of army bakers.]
[Illustration]
[Illustration: Educational efficiency as measured by its response to
a national need. Dunwoody Institute is one of the several institutes
teaching radiography and power testing to navy men.]
Sir Robert Blair, in his report already referred to, speaks of the
manner in which technical and trade schools in and about London train
semiskilled workers for munition work.
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