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Title: The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin), 1846-1935
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, Ralph Durham Co.
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e ele-mentary school work and that it should becontinued through the high school period;that the work should not be confined to asingle material and the tools necessary inthe treatment of that material, but that itshould cover a wide range in the use of toolsand materials. In the lower grades theconstruction work in drawing constitutes anatural basis and preparation for the moreelaborate work of the sixth, seventh andeighth grades, which includes mechanicaldrawing, practical exercises in carpentry,and lessons in the use of woodworking tools.The accompanying table gives a suggestedcourse for the three upper grades. In the high schools there is a continuationof carpenter work, in addition to machinework, forging, etc. In many large citiesthere are technical high schools with well-equipped workshops and laboratories, wherepupils perform the same sort of work that Pop7 ^ M 2.3 e-S 3« S 5 g o o w OS o 2 ^■d 2 ^ ° ? p S s 3 • P (N o g C « o « Co 2.E0
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WOOD WORK FROM MAXUAL TRAINING SCHOOL>\ Furniture 2 and 3. Smuller articles showing handiwork of student* MANUAL TRAINING 2245 MANURES is done in industrial plants. In some in-stances employers permit young workers tospend part of the day in such schools, thatthey may receive technical training inprejjaration for the trade selected. History in America. The first manualtraining school in the United States wasopened in Saint Louis in 1880, under thedirection of Doctor Calvin M. Woodward,as a dej^artment of Washington University.Such excellent results were obtained fromthis school that other large cities establishedsimilar schools, either as independent insti-tutions or as departments in existing highschools. The introduction of manual training intothe elementary schools began in 1882, in theDwight School of Boston. Progress, how-ever, was slow. Many patrons were opposedto the work, because they believed that thetime of a school should be devoted to thestudy of books; also, because of

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