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
Assuming that administrators of industrial education are interested in
the welfare of factory workers,--something often apart from instilling
technical skill and knowledge,--it will be necessary for them to
provide courses for men and especially for women workers, giving
instruction in the laws of health with which every employee in factory
life should be familiar. In England the memoranda of the British Health
of Munition Workers Committee have demonstrated conclusively the
great necessity of this teaching of hygiene: that the causes of ill
health of workers in munitions factories were not alone the result of
fatigue from long hours, but quite as much the result of insufficient
or ill-prepared food, inadequate sleep and ill-ventilated sleeping
quarters, and failure to appreciate the consequences of disregarding
safety devices.
It may not be amiss in this chapter to say a word about our government
naval schools, for some may not be aware that the government has for
a number of years been maintaining a very efficient system of trade
education. The purpose of the naval trade schools is to train young men
for various trades or occupations required on shipboard. In going over
the list it is likely that administrators of industrial education will
see an opportunity to connect the work of their schools with the work
of the naval schools. In addition to the practical instruction given
at the training stations where these schools are located, a course of
academic instruction is conducted throughout the naval service. This
instruction does not stop at the training station, but continues on
shipboard, and every encouragement is given for advancement. Electrical
schools are located at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and at Mare Island,
California. The course of instruction comprises machine-shop work,
reciprocating steam engines, steam-turbine engines, internal-combustion
engines, magnetism and electricity, dynamos, motors, motor generators,
alternating-current batteries, etc. Members of the radio class are
trained in the duties of a radio operator and are given constant
practice in the use of the mechanism employed in recovering and sending
messages.
The artificer school is located at the Norfolk Navy Yard, and is
composed of classes for shipwrights, ship-fitters, blacksmiths, and
painters.
The machinist and coppersmith schools are located at Charleston,
South Carolina, and are open only to reënlisted men who have certain
experience.
The aëronautics school is located at Pensacola, Florida, and is divided
into two courses: mechanics of aëronautics, and flying.
Gasoline-engine instruction is given at Charlestown Navy Yard in
connection with the machinist's school, preference being given to
reënlisted men.
Commissary schools for ships' cooks, bakers, and stewards are located
at San Francisco and Newport.
Musicians' schools are maintained at Norfolk, at Great Lake, Illinois,
and at San Francisco.
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