academic subjects. Suitable practical subjects at this stage would be woodwork, metalwork, pottery and modelling, leatherwork, spinning, weaving, plastics, printing, bookbinding, musical pipe-making, oil painting, needlework, cookery and other domestic subjects, technical drawing.
3.4. The system would then appear as follows:-
Junior Secondary Senior Secondary 6th Form
Primary
schools
-000
-00-
University
academic schools
다다다 +00
University
technical/commercial schools
Technician
머
Skilled level
training
training
Operative training
The junior secondary work would grow up in existing secondary grammar and secondary technical/commercial schools as well as in separate junior secondary schools all using the same curriculum. In this way, the only costs involved would be for the junior secondary schools and these could presumably be met from the funds set aside for the proposed vocational schools. This arrangement would enable a greater proportion of students to partake of a limited amount of secondary education thus putting back the time of decision regarding their future, all options being open up to that point. As far as future development is concerned, the two-year junior secondary work could be increased in size thus providing even greater opportunities for primary six leavers and a better chance of selecting good senior secondary candidates; alternatively the system could the more readily be converted to a mixed grammar and comprehensive one or into a fully comprehensive system if desired.
The Secondary Technical Schools
3.5. It has too often been assumed that secondary technical studies are for children of lower intellectual and verbal ability, or as it is often put, for boys and girls who are better working with their hands than with their heads. This is a fallacy as the same upper limit of intellectual and verbal ability is essential for the secondary technical as for the grammar school both require boys who can think. Different children are stimulated in their education by different subjects and activities and the secondary technical school extends the range of such subjects and activities well beyond that of the traditional grammar school thus enabling the maximum number of students in any one school at any one time to achieve their highest potentialities. Moreover, one of the advantages of employing technical subjects as educational disciplines is that like science subjects they can be used in conjunction with projects to stimulate a spirit of free enquiry and establish an embryo critical faculty. Problem solving
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