Central High School - Cog N Pen Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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FROM ауа ашы. PRINCIPAL’ (7 ‘TO PARENT | } | | Hi ГЕ January 25, 1923. DEAR PARENTS: Thoughtless disregard of orders and inattention to work during recitations cause constant loss of time to indifferent and careless pupils. There is a time for everything under the sun—a time to attend, a time to be lax. Тһе time to be lax in one's efforts is equally as important as the time to attend to work; but work unaffected by carelessness must be carried on and com- pleted before ever there is any relaxation from work. Remember the dull disregarder, the sleepy non- observer, the active members of the Careless Club, cost the taxpayers of the City of Newark many thousands of dollars because of mistakes and careless- ness at school and abroad in the city. Careless young people are the plague of themselves and a school. Carelessness as well as a lack of punctuality should be considered a social crime and a civic misdemeanor. Urge your children to be dutifully careful and punctual in all they undertake at home and in school. Very truly yours, РА Veer Principal.

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“HOW DOES THE HIGH SCHOOL MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE BUSINESS MAN?” Schools should be a part of the real world, and never institutions isolated from it or where unreal or impractical conditions exist. The only way in which the school can become an agent of a comprehensively co-operative character with business, is by the place- ment in it of instructors who have had successful busi- ness experiences in the lines in which they are teach- ing. From a viewpoint of administrative efficiency, it appears to me vital for the successful training of re- cruits in the business field, that no expense should be spared by boards of education in securing and ap- pointing to the commercial schools only those instruc- tors whose educational training coupled with testi- monials affrming successful business experience, war- rants their appointment to the responsible position of inspiration and leadership in the teaching of the funda- mentals and ideals of successful business enterprises. What does business expect of a school? To an- swer this question there must be at hand a knowledge of the type and kind of business to be considered. If it is of a manufacturing or industrial nature iechnical preparation in industrial and technical fundamentals must be offered to enable individuals io understand and work in them. If the business is commercial in character schools should give that rudimentary train- ing in the principles of office work and practice which will enable the individuals taking the courses for the carrying on of business, to apply those principles and the working knowledge obtained in the schools to actual practice with the least possible delay. It is necessary that certain subjects appear in every course of training given by schools, whether for direct application to life work or to college. English is one of these subjects. The thorough and enforced train- ing in the use and handling of the English language during every year of school attendance is vital, essen- tial, and fundamental. For English well handled, when based upon a careful knowledge of the. subjects under consideration, is the lever which aids in over- coming trying obstacles in business plans. English is often a factor in bringing co-operation and success to plans which otherwise would miscarry, because of lack of clearness or tactless formulation of ideas and business thought. Let me at this point interpolate, however, that “the three R's” must, as a matter of course be continually, strongly stressed as the beginning of all business wis- dom. Тһе arch of business knowledge having as its keystone the three R's is one of the strongest parts of the framework of the structure of a successful busi- ness career. The educational or disciplinary, the economic or social value of all school subjects should frequently be discussed with the students by well trained teachers and by outsiders who have been successful in the con- duct of large business enterprises. For even the best intentioned young people continually loose heart in their daily work, unless shown by distinterested folks from the perspective of successful business, that every bit of training in the school functions toward increas- ing the chances individual for success if properly taken advantage of. We must ever bear in mind that that school which is simply capable of training in ihe performance of routine duties, is as narrow and deadening in ambition and initiative to pupils, as are vocational schools whose chief purpose is to encourage and insist upon very limited individual specializations. Short sighted manu- facturers and business managers whose only thought is to have human machines pour money into the cor- poration coffers at the sacrifice of the manhood and personality of the individual workers, in the end de- srtoy their own business, because they-develop a type of labor which is unstable, uninterested, unreliable. and in critical periods it becomes disloyal to its own corporate interests. To avoid this outcome, it is neces- to enrich school courses of study with such subjects as will constantly bring the cultural appreciations of