High School Education

The Detroit Post and Tribune very gensibly belit'ves in high school education as wel! as cominon school education, and In discussing the proposition to do iway itli the high school of thatcity, preMBta tlic following irticle to its readers: "Tlio cncmies of tlic Detroit high Mboo] are not fortuimtc iutheirmethodsof nttack. Thosewho pblnt to ranxpeopleednctted at the high school wtut afUrwardi became Idleit and use tliat f'act as an arf;iiment agalnit the high school mfght poiut to other htindreds of dlors who have ittendod the I cnmmon schools, aml willi quita af much propriety my IheiribiUeasneas Istherwolt olVonmioii school education. lt 'idli-iir - lul lowing srliooling is :m arrumt;i)t agminft liijili icboolli it i :ni aijruincnt ftgainst all chooU. And tlie argument does not pause there. Aduiiitiii} klleneM to be au nilrii-.' nuin-t - charaeterof the offense il in no wny alten-il ly tli fact tliat the educaüou ot the idlt-r wus paid tbr by bit famil; or by tbe public It it is wroiif to be iiile, li is wrong trnspective of Ui is. The dier wboae l'.ither pays tur liis edncation uo botter tüan tae otherkHerwhob educated at public fTPtnto. Thus i f the kileiMM ei people who hare bad schoolIng cim ba oma agaiut tka bigb -liool, it aan be n-ul with qoitc as mucb bros iiyiiiii.-t all edttCfttkm. Tka persons wlio use urgomeot - nntr too much. They rcason thus: 1. John Jones's father is a Laborer. . John Joiic, If kit In ifrnorance, would labor as his father does. 3. John Jonet frmduatfld at the high school. 4. John .Iones aspires to be a clerk and fciling to Mud i-niployint-nt is idle. ñ. I i tv edacatlon in the lililí Khool made Jotm ¦ looier. Tliis is rt;allv n : 1 1 1 . 1 impotent CODCluaioB, not JntUIed by the pretniae In most nnoi thli Idlcioi result entirely independent ot' the hib m hooi, or of any otber school. A jiart of lue t the prohibitlon Itui-U by the trades union, upon the employnient of apprentices, whlcbperrotttforeljcn nuushlnlats Ui drive American boys out of American ¦hop ; i put cl it i Une to the absence of proper paif mi al conlrol; n ai t of it Is doe to ¦ Dstnnü dctlre to lie MMDethioa bIm thsn a dlgger In sewers and a i-airier of bricks. iiut all thes pionipting causes wonid exlM f the high ichool wew at)olishcil, siikI ctlects, iu.-tead of U-ini; düulniihed by its aholition, wonld 1" largely auijniented. Kor in tliat event, to the iininljcr imif idle, there woulü beaddeil wlio obtetn employmenl u thi of tlic cdwration iIkv in tlic liijrh Hhool, umi u-lncli thcy coilld nol MCUre without It Aaammttor it bd the high ctiool dlmtnUhai iilleness iustead of incteafling it. And malt is the Incritul](.' lailowlng of everything wliicli Ut eitliei' boy or giiis lor u grt'üler variciy 01 (tuipluyiiiwuto ui luniiil tliolu v til Itdditional Intelligence or skill. 'l'lic persons who eniloy tliis argument, c.ui not point to one per.son who lias been made an Idlor by liinii ichool educstion. All who tre u would bc so il thcy b.iil lxci Ic.iimil Ihc alpllabct. On thé othcr hand manv scores, il not liiunlrcd-, ot people can bc polnted oul lio ari' now indjMtrfcttl and valuable citiens and who are to a lal ge extent indelilcd to high school fducation and tniinin for what thcy are. And every one of these is a living protMl agaJnst dutarbinx tbe hifbichooliystem."