The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-02-20

froa Tie simpler 30 The more diHealt
requirements of Art culture When he
leaves school he shoulA still continue
bis art studies Prof Thompson, oI
the Worcester Technical School. says {.
a boy et0 peads fr8 hours O rest
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r3gI5ag az fs begrb, 1egrH1 hf business
faster oad ba0mu morS skafgH akaH
ono vt9 vgrts aH ne fine. Ifhc atiAius
a real skill as a designer or draughts-
mau be becomes at once a valuable
person.
The kind Of drawing which, by this
act Of The Massachusetts, Legislature,
is provided for every citizen is called
Industrial Drawing and by this title it
is distinguished from those methods
which are strictly professional or mere
ly ornamental. Germany, France and
England have made great progress in
this direction, aud ia this country
Massachusetts, has taken the first step.
And just here those very branches
which, ia the schools, have aimed only
TO make something pretty, have &C
compljshed a good end by opening the
way for thorough training. As one
style after another has been introduced
into the schools, and taught at high
rates of tuition, as extras, the public
mind has become more and more alive
10 the fact that these extras are Of no
intrinsic value, that they are a prodl-
gal waste, both Of time aud money.
But, though in themselves, worse than
yaIueless they have pointed to some
thing more substantial, which like 9th
or branches Of common education, shall
have in view the life long benefit Of the
individual and Improvement in the
trades aud manufactures Of the coun-
try.
If to every scholar in the public
schools, belongs the right to acquire a
knowledge Of drawing, than TO every
teacher in the public schools belongs
the obligation to teach it. They must
themselves learn and teach it, as they
learn and teach other branches they
must be required to be examined in the
elements, and to receive a certificate
in this as in other branches, and in the
schools devote to it about the same
time as to reading, writing or spell
ing.
In England the public school teach.
ers are required TO become proficient
in the Free Hand Drawing, Model OF
Object Drawing, Memory Drawing.
Geometrical Drawing and Perspective
Any capable of teaching other branch.
es or of learning them can become ex.
]celIent draughtsmen with no otheI
talent than perseverance and a deter.
termination to succeed. The first les.
sons for young children should b.
given from the blackboard, to be copieC
on the blackboard or the slate they
should commence with simple lines
vertical, horizontal, oblique and curveC
these to be continued till the child is q,
familiar with the several lines, as will
the letters of the alphabet, till he car
name, draw and combine them at will
till he has learned to see correctly ant
has complete control over the hand
These first lessons should befollowed by
model drawing in outline, from simpl,
objects which involve little or no per
spective, with frequent exercises iron
memory, or, as they may be called, re
view lessons. In the advanced school
the lessons may include the more diff
cult models, singly and in groups
which require the elementary rules o
perspective. After this the pupi
should advance to technical schools
which, in art, should hold the sam,
place as the theological, medical o.
law school in these several professions
which subject properly belongs to an
other chapter, as does also the peculi
ar fitness of art education for woman
answering one of the most exciting
problems of the age, by opening 70
her, new and almost unbounded field
of labor, where she need fear no riva.
ry but the rivalry Of superior skill.