The Poly, 1919 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Poly, 1919

It becomes more and more apparent as we get a better understand ing of general education as it relates to the life of the nation, that we must offer to overy boy and girl, rich or poor, native born or foreign born; city dweller or child of the farm and the mining camp, an equal opportunity of training that fits for life. The higher education of the past has been too much for the wealthier and more favored classes and not. Enough for the wage earning masses. Even with these later days of industrial education, the great tendency has been to establish high grade manual training school and professional agricultural courses, which lead to the higher technical and engineering courses and away from the trade, the workshop and the farm. Yet the safety and strength of our Republic and the world depend upon the education of the great mass of citizens who are to be the real workers and producers, the wage earners in our factories and the laborers on our farms. The love and capacity for making things and growing things lies atthe very founda tion of the well being of all society. Theodore Roosevelt well expressed this idea when he said, It should be one of our prime objects to put the mechanic, the wage worker who works with his hands, and who ought to work in a constantly larger degree with his head, on a higher plane of efficiency and reward, so as to increase his effectiveness in the eco nomic world, and therefore the dignity, remuneration, and the power of his position in the social world. To train boys and girls in merely literary accomplishments, to the total exclusion of the industrial, manual, and technical training tends to unfit them for industrial work.

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