ALL-ROUND EDUCATION
HIGH SCHOOL'S AIM BOYS IN DOMESTIC WORK An all-round education that will propare its pupils to meet any of the ordinary little emergencies of daily life is the aim of the high school at Yorkville, Ohio, United States of America. Appreciating the fact that men have on occasion to take over women's jobs, and vice versa, the school is not content with providing manual training for the boys and lessons in the domestic science for the girls. The children change over classes, and for certain weeks of each term the lads leave their carpentry benches and take up work at the sinks, stoves and wash troughs of the domestic department. The training they receive in this way is supposed to lit them for life in the wild, should their future careers take them to primitive parts, or to make them useful in household emergencies when they marry and settle down in homes of their own.
While the boys are occupied with their novel school tasks, the girls are busy learning how to mend the. electric iron, put up workmanlike shelves, attend properly to stopped-up pipes, and, in general, to meet the scores of little domestic crises for which a handy man has usually to be called in.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23167, 13 October 1938, Page 5
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