. The National Civic Federation review . s above theelementary schools are set hard and fast for pro-fessional employments and for managing positionsin industrial employments-. In the high schools, thecolleges, professional schools that are independent,as well as those related to the universities; in busi-ness and commercial schools, or Independent schoolsof every kind in universities, and even in technicalschools of every grade, the whole scheme is to turnout professional men and managers and captains ofsomething or other rather than skilled the top to the bottom of the s-chool s
. The National Civic Federation review . s above theelementary schools are set hard and fast for pro-fessional employments and for managing positionsin industrial employments-. In the high schools, thecolleges, professional schools that are independent,as well as those related to the universities; in busi-ness and commercial schools, or Independent schoolsof every kind in universities, and even in technicalschools of every grade, the whole scheme is to turnout professional men and managers and captains ofsomething or other rather than skilled the top to the bottom of the s-chool system theeye i on Hie school above, and the school above?b ads to a professional or a managing employmentrather than a trade vocation. Vol much Icyoiid the natural growih of existinginstil ill Ions seems now to be necessary to t he pro-fessional life of the country. This cannot be saidas to the factors which contribute! to the Industrial life of the nation, in the Interest of the commonpeople and of the country the kinds of schools must. HON. ANDREW S. DRAPER. be multiplied, the educational schemes be broadened,attendance upon schools must be longer and moreuniversal, and the work of the lower schools musthave much more bearing upon the labor of themasses. It is commonly assumed that practically allthe children who generally go to the high schoolsfinish the elementary schools. But this is not thefact. It is startling to find that certainly not morethan two-fifths and probably not more than one-thirdof the children who enter our elementary schoolshave finished them, and that not one-half of them getbeyond the fifth or sixth grade. With the development of schools on the literary,scientific and professional sides the indenturing sys-tem has practically disappeared. Few boysi are nowapprenticed to a trade. The increase of machineryhas led the older workmen who work with theirhands to resist the training of boys for that workin order to avoid more competition. It is even truethat th
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