The Separate Technical High School (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Separate Technical High School Nor would it seem proper to include under the head of the separate technical high schools those which boast of complete manual-training departments, but whose courses still are dminated by the universities and the colleges. Very few, even of the schools terming themselves technical high schools, have been able to divorce themselves from a curriculum which has for its fundamentals those studies usually pre scribed in the literary schools and which devote less than 2 5 per cent of the time to handwork. A glance at the course of study of the manual training high schools shows a course including English, mathematics, a language (either classical or modern), some history and science, plus shopwork and drawing unrelated to the rest of the course. In most of these schools even technical subjects have very little interdependence one with the other. Such schools should not be included under the head of separate technical high schools. Those pf the above type being then eliminated, he schools that could be included would be only those which have a course of study where English, mathematics, science, shopwork, and drawing are the fundamentals and where the foreign languages and history play less important parts. Of schools of this nature there are comparatively few in the United States. Among the best examples are the related schools in San Francisco, namely, the California School of Mechanical Arts and the Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts for Boys. Another school of this nature is the Technical High School of Cleveland. Certain courses in the Technical High School in Chicago and the Stuyvesant High School in New York would entitle these institutions also to representation. In some of these courses the aim seems to have been not so much to meet college requirements as to fit boys and girls to go out into industrial life. In this connection the Williamson Free School of Trades, in Penn sylvania, might also be included, as the academic work of the school is at least of high-school grade and the technical courses are scarcely to be approached by those of any of the public technical high schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.