Suggestions and Exercises for Manual Training (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Suggestions and Exercises for Manual TrainingThere is another, an economic question, involved in this work It has been demonstrated beyond any possibility of doubt that older pupils, boys especially, are not so anxious to drop out of those schools where manual training is taught. They see in it something that may touch their lives in the future. The relation of algebra, geometry, Latin, and kindred subjects to the necessities of every day life cannot be so readily seen and conse quently when they reach that stage of young manhood or young woman hood from which they begin to look over into real life they get restless, lose interest, and usually leave school. But if such young men and young women can be kept in school by manual training they will learn not only manual training and receive the benefits involved therein but in connection with the subject they would also be taught something of other higher branches and thus their higher powers of thought, which are ordinarily untouched owing to their youth and the subjects taught in the lower grades of school work, would be developed. This alone is a powerful argument in favor of the introduction of some phase of manual training in all schools.Manual training is also an element of safety in our social life. The more of it a young person does in a systematic manner the more he touches real life, the young man, industrial life and the young woman, domestic life. This touch creates an understanding of and sympathy with labor thus bridging a deep and widening chasm in this country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.