. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. , no year of life, up to the age oftwenty-one, can safely be left bare ofany provision for schooling. For thosewho can continue to devote the latteryears of this period chiefly to education,such i^rovision is found in the high schools,technical and professional schools andcolleges. But what provision shall bemade for those who must devote theseyears of their lives chiefly to the earningof a livelihood? Educational opportunity for workingpeople has been supplied to an ex
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. , no year of life, up to the age oftwenty-one, can safely be left bare ofany provision for schooling. For thosewho can continue to devote the latteryears of this period chiefly to education,such i^rovision is found in the high schools,technical and professional schools andcolleges. But what provision shall bemade for those who must devote theseyears of their lives chiefly to the earningof a livelihood? Educational opportunity for workingpeople has been supplied to an extentin our evening schools, but these schoolsdo not answer adequately the needs ofthese younger workers. If they havedone their duty by their days work,they are in no condition for intensivemental activity in the evening. At fourteen, or soon after, the majorityof youths start their life work, free tostand, but {)rone to fall. Henceforwardthey will work for themselves and, notimprobal)ly, help to support their next few years are most diflicult,for boys and girls are too young to ob- BOSTON CONTINUATION SCHOOLS. Photooraph by Christian Science Monitor CLASS IN SALESMANSHIP AT THE HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE tain good employment; they have Httleidea of what their work in Hfe is to be,and they worry about their future morethan we reahze. Later, when good em-ployment begins, the greater part learnedat school has been forgotten, and theyare less apt than when they left day-school two or three years before. Industry must not take a child atfourteen and leave him, intellectually,at the same place he occupied wheneighteen. LTp to the present time, however,little or no provision has been made forthe majority of our boys and girls, who,often through no fault of their own,must go to work. For such, the instruc-tion most closely connected with thework to be secured gives greatest promise,and it is easy to provide for this in con-nection with his regular work. Few,if any employers, ar
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