The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-04
MANUAL TRAINING.
ONE or THE CHIEF DEFECTS or
OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

When the Poor BOY Goes out OF school.
What Manual Training Mcans-Resuit
OF bringing Nerves to- the Front-in
the shops.
There is not IA child in the world that ought
To try To live 10y his wits alone; nor one who
ought 70 bc compelled To live by the work Of
his hands alone. Most boys that enter our
! schools have % grow up To- the idea that they
are 10 work with their hands II follows
that IA few are Ia grow up Ia the idea TINT
they need not toll at all with their hands 80
! We have III our educational system t. look
out To- educate our two classes; our high caste
, and low caste boys and girls. Naturally, the
one caste viii dcSpiSc the other; and tho other
will pay hack with hate. So 10y and by, you
/ get your social div isiou Of lthorcrs and cap
ituliStS, AMI with 1t the moral dynamite Of
| eternal dislike.
! Common education Is not education at all,
when IL has taught reading, writing and the
usual school curriculum The poor boy goes
out OF the SchoolhouSc, and ne must live
thereafter hy means of that part that Is not
! educatri-hiS hands. He cannot use the
| educali"n, on what you have given him for
| education, at all; or il at all, 81 little that
1t clini'@I at him at his daily toll. His eIlu-
/ c;it"d brain l. angry. lie is obliged IL come
| down - an uuc'lucat'd part ii his body for
| iifc's living; Is the rich luy amy b..ttcr oil I:
S'sH Out not lN'llttl l'tii WITH hl~
| hands; hut what can his brain d. alone: The
poor skull full of protoplasm is driven 10 take
up with "A profession, or IN dahhlr in some
! sort al speculation.
But does manual training not mean that
| the boy or girl educated to- uS,, tools must he
| come a mechanic. or I'll" graduates of the
| admirable school connected with Washington
university at the last commencement, "uuc in
| tends Ia la a physician. another a dentist, an
| other n luMrE,- b-tlf
commercial pursuit; two viii rails. stock or
! become farmers; several hope :" I,cuuc
| ginccrH, three aspire t. l., architects. four "r
! five viii work for Will. IN machine shops,
while fifteen "r more intend L. make a hi yhcr
c"ur'-r IT study, either at tho university ur
! elsewhere"
| 40 DuDDIN1 IuE FACT
~ boy who SOS nothing in manual labor
but brute force ,IeIiS,s both IN, labor and
! the lahnrrr" Ihrrr l. no lodging tn" fact
that 'o'lucntel classes d~pisc labor.
! N"H cannot get around 1t. For Collre"
! graduate" To- hccum, a manual laI,ur,r Is con
sidcrcl coming down Until very recently
! the crowd from our colleges went nowhere
| but into the professions. Slowly this Is
changing, hut there j. still tn" pr iadi,o ami
! the sharp division Manual lahpr schools
| have II for their mission t. break up this mis-
understanding. The bcSt brains finding
it advantageous also to have the best hands.
Our lives under III" stress al tho Older cdu-
! cation brought the nerves tn the front. The
/ BRAIN ran away with us The tendency has
| been I" absorb all the vitality in that
| organ. Our hair falls cut with uur teeth
| Our eyes are failing and ~"uS'. Of smell
| Our endurance i not equal t. that of
| fathers. Athletics have dom. snmcthm;S
! toward comparative p@tdiGstm'nt. But it
is necessary that oar school system STALL L.
| wholly rcm"lc7i. We must not uuly have
! physiology and hygiene Taught, hut must
| have it practicct in body culture.
Education, instead Of unlcriuimiu.. health
| should create health and character. IL i
absurd Ia say you have taught or trained a
| boy when you have only half killed hint
What have you educated! The turkey j,
stuffed, let us kill him outright. No child
should I've confined - n book over one hu,r
colrsccutively in day. Play should h. a
part of the enforced curriculum. But how
admirably manual training supplements ~
compliments brain training LIT them -
from the shop To their books and hack again.
TRTP THROUGH THE SHOPS.
Let uS look little more into detail. l.;
| us enter Professor Woo,lwarl's schoul-ShuIs.
If you prefer to call it. The carpenter shop
all sorts of saws, squares, bevcls, gauges,
hammers, mallcts, rules, planes, chScl-, hlt'.
hatChctS The most beautiful thing here j.
orlcr-all the tools in good condition and ia
their own places hardly over saw IA study.
where the brain ruled alone, that was de
Gently kept. Scholars are proVcrbially lack
ing i'll tidincSS. l am afraid, professor, the
boys will never hc literary, they ar" too or
derby. Woodturning-not II, many tool.
hut system before. NV boy Fritz car,
scarcely contain himself; IL this D.. study, !.
this br school, how delightful. The horror ui
two things broodS over the ordinary school
silence and pIinmceSs / wasted tn years IN
school lccaJiss th,sc nightmare, were iu~uffcI-
able. Hut l WAS fortunately puuy Fritz J.
a great rugged and awfully active pi,,r 81
machinery. If you wish Ia keep that watch
III good order, sir, you must not 1T it run
down" Just 80, Fritz viii Ia spoiled if -
stop him
The forge All, here como t. life!
Strike while the iron Is hot, Bc alive, boys.
How their eyes sparkle, hike the sparks from
the blows. Mrs. Lillypaugh, your SON here
will surely get his hands sOilei, but, my
glory. what hands lac viii have Such a
tender love in them, ami such a gripof truth!
You will tie glad 10y and 10y To feel his grand
arm around YOU in your old age. hate a
musty little boy, done W i'll Ponds extract,
and not able To carry his Latin dictionary
The machine shop-lathcS, planes, drill-ani
what is all the time touching the boys imag-
ination, power Everything great is con
summatel and summed up in "A steam engine
How l should like t. rcsurrcut Adam. /
mean that Adam who first took a stone ald
fixed handle TO il u break and pound with
i would like "a have him come in here with
me and see what his first hammer, made Iru.-
co. years ago, has come to-what i going to
come to-can you euo~s.-~E. Z. P ia
Glohcp Democrat.