The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1884-02-21
A FORWARD MOVEMENT
I'm Education Which rs to Bring Into
Use Faculties Hitherto Unframed.
lChicago TribuneI


Mr.. Edison P. Seaver, the present
superintendent Of the public schools of
Boston, in his annual report in March
last, discussed tho subject of industrial
education intclligcntly and exhaust
ivoly, and concluded by recommending
the establishment of msnual-traininT
school in connection with tho city pub.
liz school system. IIc said:
"Tho best provision, therefore, would
be to establish at some central point in
tho city ono manual training school, to
equip this school thoroughly for its
work, and to- admit to it, under suitable
restrictions, boys from all parts of the
city. A single school, largo enough to
accommodate 200 to 800 pupils, would
be the most economical provisio on that
could be made. BY changing tho
arranged timetable, the shops and tools
would be in use oil tho time, and the
instructions, both in shop-worl1 and in
ordinary achoolworlS, would he con.
stantly occupied. In this school tho
boys should continue their ordinary
school-work about two hours day, at
tend to drawing one hour, and work in
the shops two hours more. If tho
course were made three years long, tho
intellectual work would cover the upper
part of the grammar school course Cor
the most essential studies in it,, to-
gcthcr with some parts of the high
school course. The manual training
could be brought up to the point Of
enabling pupils on leaving school to
enter many manual cmploymonts with
advantage to themselves and, therefore,
to the community. Not that the school
would or could teach any single trade,
as would bo dono in an apprentice
school, but its pupils would be so we'll
grounded in tho general principles of
, many trades that the spccialtics of each
trade would be very quickly learned
. The experience of tho st. Louis school,
as well as that of other similar institu
tions, leaves littlo doubt on this point"
1t IS not eight months since this
recommendation was made, but it has
been adopted by the school authorities
OF Bosiui. n portion Of the latin
school buildings n special school devoted
TO the preparation of pupils for tho
learned professions, has been assigned
to the uses of manual training; and
hereafter any boy in Boston If years OF
age or over who desires it may receive
instruction in the use of hand tools, such
instruction to be paid for out of the pub
lie school fund.
In the manual training school to he
opened i'll the basement of the Boston
, Latin school building the Yankee boy
i will be taught to use his Owes and
! hands. lie will draw from things,
! and ut the bench, with the ap-
! propriatc tools, will reproduce in
wood and iron the things he has
! drawn. These exercises will bring into
! use faculties hitherto unframed in the
schools. The boy in the manual train
j ing school will find it necessary to re-
/ fleet, to reason, to decide; and all these
exercises OF the mind will be II delight
/ to him. Tins power is generated
: power that develops true manhood
I Boston rs a city is about to onter
upon an experiment undertaken here
+ by tho Commercial club in the cStab
) llshmcnt of Il manual training school,
! the building for which is in process of
erection, and will soon be complete.
; That th"Sc experiments will be success
ful there can be scarcely a tloIht. That
ut st. Louis is already success. and
the schools in this city and Boston will
oi course be modelled on the plan OF
that of Dr. Woodward.