Excerpt from Boston Continuation School: Circular of Information and Courses of Study Continuation schools are the direct outcome of modern industrial development, the subdivision of labor, the introduction of machinery, the growth of large plants where the individual is lost, the passing of apprenticeship, and the growing conviction that the state must provide educational Opportunity to meet the needs of all its children. The task of the Continuation School therefore becomes plain. The gap between the idealistic school life and the practical life of employment must be bridged. The means of intellectual and educational advancement which were lost with the passing of the apprenticeship system must be replaced. Society must be protected by reducing the ranks of the unfortunate and the ignorant. Further train ing in the fundamentals of education must be given but it must be Offered in such form as the young worker will accept. The deadening influence of automatic work must be offset and a more perfect, democracy must be established by affording each young worker his opportunity to make the most of himself. The young employee must be trained for useful, satisfying work as a reaction against the' influ ences which tend toward parasitic existence; he must learn to occupy his time with wholesome self-improving activities; he must be helped in making his educational experience count; he must be aided in determining his most promis ing aptitudes; he must be assisted in forming habits of economy and thrift; he must be guided to make the best and the most of himself and of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.