COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 135, 24 May 1912, Page 2

COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.

BASIS OF BUSINESS SUCCESS

WORK FOR CHAMBERS OF

COMMERCE

The Chamber of Commerce of New York City has taken up very srriouslv the question of commercial education, and has appointed a committee for the purpose of awakening interest prepai ing a plan of action, and giving it practical effectiveness. The chamber has decided to establish a Commercial Education Council, which is to secure facilities for ccnnncrci il education Jn the elementary schools of the city for beys, and girls obliged to leave school at the age of 14; to establish evening schools for commercial education ; to obtain additional facilities for commercial education in the secondary schools of the city ; and to provide a well-equipped and thoroughly organised College of Commerce with facilities for the expert training of men for the city’rapidly growing export trade and for* the training of teachers in commercial education. The Chamber* of Commerce is also to establish, according to this plan, a free employment bureau for the. use of all students of commercial education who shall secure the Chamber of C.'ommerce certificate cf proficiency in commercial subjects. It is- also to establish a Commercial Museum, which _ shall contain a well-equipped library bearing on commercial education subjects. Facilities for this kind of education arc partially provided for in the secondary schools, and there are high schools of commerce ; but in the great majority of high schools the course of study is still modelled on the college .entrance examinations, and (says the New York “Outlook”) its inadequacy is proved by the fact that not more than one-half of the pupils stay long enough in school to complete the course. Commercial education Fes at the basis of (nodern business success, and has been the secret of the immense advance which Germany has made along commercial lines during the last few years.