Human Waste in EducationCentury Company, 1927 - 449 lappuses |
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86. lappuse - That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to investigate and report on the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical condition of woman and child workers in the United States wherever employed, with special reference to their age, hours of labor, term of employment, health, illiteracy, sanitary and other conditions surrounding their occupation, and the means employed for the protection of their health, persons, and morals.
161. lappuse - If 2160 days at school add $20,000 to the income for life, then each day at school adds $9.02.
143. lappuse - Congress shall have power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age. SECTION 2. The power of the several States is unimpaired by this article except that the operation of State laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress.
94. lappuse - The commission shall investigate the needs for education in the different grades of skill and responsibility in the various industries of the Commonwealth.
114. lappuse - ... school 173, or approximately 40 per cent of the children studied, left because of economic pressure, and 115, or 28 per cent, because of dissatisfaction of some kind with school. Mrs. Reed points out that — as economic pressure is a relative term, and as about 30 per cent of these classi•fied under this heading admitted that they disliked school and were glad to be relieved of attending, we are justified in. assuming that " dissatisfaction " is an even more potent factor in school leaving...
236. lappuse - ... and thus the only vocational opportunities open to them are those of the Continuation school. Furthermore the majority of these children who drop out of school at the earliest possible moment are those whose natural ability has not been equal to the demands which have been put on it. Wooley states: "The great superiority both physically and mentally of school children over working children might be taken as proof of the bad effects of industry upon working children, were it not for the fact that...
123. lappuse - ... shoe. The children in the sewing trades pull bastings, or baste one kind of a seam." It is shown, as in so many of the other surveys, that many of the best department stores and most -of the skilled trades are closed to children under 16. Mrs. Woolley declares: It is a conservative statement to say that only a small proportion of these children find themselves any better fitted to earn a living at 16 than they were when they began work at 14.
40. lappuse - In the old age, educators assumed that juvenile employment was a legislative problem ; in the new age, they are coming to see that it is an educational problem — that it means the recognition of juvenile employment as a legitimate and constructive factor in education.
294. lappuse - Waste in Industry; by the Committee on Elimination of Waste in Industry of the Federated American Engineering Societies, Washington, DC, p.
81. lappuse - Success is necessary to every human being. To live in an atmosphere of failure is tragedy to many. It is not a matter of intellectual attainment; not an intellectual matter at all but a moral matter. The boys and girls coming out of school clearheaded and with good bodies, who are resolute, who are determined to do and sure that they can do, will do more for themselves and for the world than those who come out with far greater intellectual attainments, but who lack confidence, who have not established...