Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Mar 1933, p. 27

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ber ofstudents you have in a school' which determines the total cost, flot the subjects taugbt.. In other words, the students wbo are now efirolled in vocational courses. willI stili ,be in, our public schools, eveni though we shoulId eliminate these-'courses. It will be necessary.to enlarge our facilities fo college preparatory .uresinorder * to accommnodate tbemi, houild w*e de- cide: to, elimnate. our vocational courses:in a wholesale' manner. Our savings in cost wiIl be but littie', if * aly, and 'the loss to students in training will be tremendous.." In discussing arguments raised for the discontinuance of vocational edu- cation in the public schools Mr. Kaser saidz1: ."rhe criticismi of vocational educa- tion mnost frequently heard is that 'it dàesn't really' make printers, book-~ keepers, machinists, stenographers, wood *workers and other artisàns of its studlents'. 0f course, it doesn't. Nor does college mnake a doctor nor an engineers of its students. It takes years of .ùnterneship in a bospital be- fore the graduate of a medical school may 'hang out bis shingle'. \Tery few graduates of. our engineering schoo S, earn their sait the first few years. AI- most without exception, it requires years of experience before our col- Ieast a cw rnionths tor experience ana adaptation before wve condemn his training." Junior Sehool Branch Forms New Committee, A service- committee bas been forined. witbin the memibership of tbe' for the spare parts adwe got the job out on time!" t take you out-of-town on business." -.4 i Mrs. E A..Roc , j- ; , 4rne,

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