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& NESDAY, APRIL 16, 1919. A hl | I Wi to FOI'CCT "_does not make the best use of his | '" NOt Come ln | life. The only remedy for this was' Probably for Another to extend the age of compulsory edu-- P cation from fourteen. ' Year and Then by ro--| Conserving Human Resources, ; & ® | clamation by Lieutenant-- Dr. Cody declared that when ' there was so much heard of the con-- GOVGI'I'IOI' servation of natural resources great-- | er attention should be given to the t o o | conservation .of the human re--| When the act respecting compul-| sources. _ No Stato i_s safe if nnly| * © _ of _ adoles-- |; some of its social 'itnits are educat-i sory scheol lttenda?}fe d' of ,h;sk ed. It was the masses that should cents becomes law e. ent 9 | be educated and not just the lead-- week this Province will have one | ers. _ The use of the educational of the most advanced educationul! {funds in the past had not been ac-- > its statutes of any cording to the best economy. The measures on i | t lcal o ce n : i '1d, in the opinion most economical use of the finances country in th? world,. in P 5 would be to follow up and see that of Hon. Dr. Cody, Minister of Edu-- the boy or girl is given more edu-- cation. The bill was given its sec-- cation just at the time he or she | ond reading yesterday in the Legis-- 3 completes the elementary training." lature after the Minister of Educa--| There was on the statutes an tion -- explained at consideral)lei Adolescent School Act. _ However, 4 ghd only one place in Ontario had come length the details of the act, C | in under it. That was London, and | passed through committee and glv-lv it had since had to drop it. He! en its third reading last night.| paid tribute to that city, which, he§ The Minister, however, does not ex-fI said, was in .the front r:n}k along | R covisions ill will educational lines in Ontario. _ The fect the pn.)vx S e ?f e P ths l Ryerson Elementary School in Lon-- becomc.* opel.ati'vtg f'm' sotrpe nlgr'l.ioz;; don was one of the best and most at least ugul Af:o" '"?0 o Fe whags ' completely equipped schools on the of the Legislature. As the act now | North American continent stands it will be brought into force | 4 ® * * | by proclamation of the Lieutenant-- Expounds New Bill. | Governor. o : i Dr. Cody frankly admitted that _ Under the proposed act the half-; amendments may be required in the time and full-gme e(lucatlonz.ll feat-! act by another session. The officials ures between fourteen and elghteeni of the department had studied every were incorporated in so far as they | similar act in the world. 'This are applicable to Ontario., Dr. Cody | measure was equal to them all, ind sketched at considerable i]ength the ahead of them in some respects. various clauses in the bill, as ex-- | While muchiha(l belen dheal'd dOI t}t:e plained in these columns a few days | Fisher Bill in Englan an e ago, dealing with them in three | Scottish Educational Act, this meas-- broad divisions: (1) fourteen to six-- | ure, the Minister said, improves up-- | teen, either full or part time; (2) | on them in some ways. With the | part time sixteen to eighteen; (3) | act incorporated in the laws of t.h_ef nreparations for the special courses. Province he ~believed it would give He explained that for -- part--time the School Boards an opportunity | i n £ o x A A 1 courses between fourteen and six-- to prepare for the conditions they | teen a> child must aggregate at will have to meet when the me_asuref Ilvéaet 'four'hundrefi hours each voar' becomes operative. --He. believed, ; t o h ind 14 L. too, that much information will in school, and that every child be-- reach the department as a result of iween f'-'te_e" and eighteen must the measure being discussed by the take part--time education aggregat-- various interests in the Province. ing three hlundr'.ed Iar(!iddtv&fenty hourg That being the case amendments a year, unless included in some o may be necessary at the next session ' the exceptions, as provided in the | before the provisions a.rei brought | act. into force by proclamation. Dr. Dr. Cody expressed the opinion Cody invited the members to dis-- that when the practical Worl':)k is cuss the measure as fully as possible combined with the theoretical, un-- in the limited time yet remaining. -- der the part--time plan, much Letter When he sat down he was applauded results would be secured than or-- by members on both sides of the dinarily, and the child will have House. & more interest in the work. 'The t will make it so that there can Minister Proud of Act. aC | here c be no:--idleness. A child will cither "I think this act, although it #OG'S ,halxz:e to be at work or at school. not go as far as some may wish, is @xplaining the meaning he put yet one of the very best adolesgerllt llll)pon the term '"adequate education," compulsory acts in _the whole o |Dr. Cody said he believed there world," declared the Minister with would have to be different types of pride during the course of his hour's schools, and he laid great stress on address. 57 the need of general education. He It had been said that about ninety divided this adequate education into per cent. of the children do not go three .classes: (1) Classes for con-- beyond the elementary schools, and tinuation of general work; (2) com-- this argument, Dr. Cody believed, ad-- | mercial and trade preparatory work ded weight to the contention that classes; (3) commercial and trade the advantages in the elementary . extension classes. schools should be imprtc))ved. HOtW'% Commercial and Technical Schools. evers aftex: there has ralet J tel There were many difficulties in concentration provided in the ele-- the way, including that of j fter manual train-- P agrays 8 securing mentary schools, a f | the right kind of teachers. These ing and domes.txc science classes were reasons, however, that make it have been established, he still be-- necessary to have the people pre-- lieved that no system of education pared for the law before it is put could crowd sufficient training into into operation. He hoped the Do-- a course when children leave off at minion Government would not go fourteen. back on the Provinces and fail to There were three reasons which assist financially in education. How-- he cited to bear out this argument. ever, if it did so, he believed the A child _ between fourteen and Province should tackle the problem eighteen years of age is at a period itseli{. He expressed the belief that of life when he requires guidance within five or six years _there will and control. A child at that age is + be commercial and. technical high not capable of choosing intelligently schools established in nearly all the his life work, and there are few in-- llgzger urban centres in the Prov-- stances where the vocations offer * f % satisfactory life work to a child un-- | Mr. Allan Studholme of _ East der the age of sixteen years Six-- Hamilton regretted the Minister A o a s had left so many loopholes in the teen is the age of admittance in pro-- ; -- bill He believed that as it now fessional schools, so there is a sort | ® s c + 4 i1 4) > stands there will be room for both of "dead end" in a child's life if | hool at f t f | the employers and the children to _he stops school at four een. and he | : ___get out of carrying out the prov--| wscmime O a: ; 4