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""^INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN MISSION SCHOOLS 283VIIL Is thin opportunity of self-kelp open to others besides thepoorer students?Usually it is open, only to the poorer students but sometimes it is open to all.LX What are your difficulties in developing this work?Funds, competent and responsible super- lDifficulties . .c ,. .,vision, laek of time on the part 01 the headof the school, and lack of knowledge along lines of voeatioualtraining, are among the difficulties. The greatest difficultyof all is inertia. Persons hesitate to open such departmentsbecause they are not experts but in some instances an ounce;of initiative has brought a pound of knowledge.A .v,Along which lines do you feel that your work has succeeded.r 1. It has weeded out a certain type ofIndustrial Work worthless pupil who has sometimes thrivenunduly in mission schools under the easyscholarship system. The self-help department is the narrowand straight gate which lets in the deserving poor and keepsout those who have no ideal.2. It has given a higher tone to the school. It enablesa school to abolish the vicious, free-scholarship system,where a boy gets everything for nothing.3. It has given the poor boy a dignified position inthe school- He is not a beneficiary any longer.4. It has made* discipline much easier.5. It gives the pupils sympathetic touch with the workof the common people.6. It has introduced some of the simpler trades intothe homes. One writes "It has introduced weaving intohundreds of homes."XL Can you observe that having a boy work for part of hisboard, instead of getting help freely, stiffens his moral fibre andmakes a better man of him ?Moral Value* s a frightful injustice to help a boywithout requiring immediate returns of somesort."I will not give a cent to help a poor boy unless