Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-04-12
MANrAL TRAGNING.

cooking, sewing, and the construction
of actual things"
MANUAL TRAINIEG.
At the same session II. II. BolGeld
Director Manual Training School,
Chicago. ILL.,, read paper on Manual
Training, from which we quote as
follows:
No systom Of culture is worthy Of
the name that is not broad enough TO
cover the idea of discipline and utility.
The best educated man is lie who has
been tremendously developed in the
physical, mental, and moral powers.
In different countries the training of
pupils for the work Of life varies. The
Well-educated man has many fields
open to him, while for the lower
grades of elementary education the
opportunities are comparatively few.
There should be trade schools, aud the
public schools should fit the young,
br teaching the alphabet of this cult
urc for admission TO these schools.
The Training School ut Chicago was
founded by an association of mer-
chants. men Nao knew the practical
needs of our age. 1t was first adyo-
Gated in the public press by a lawyer,
Col. Augustus Jacobson, and by
Charles IL. Ham, neither Of the two
being a teacher The school was or
ganiled and is owned by the CONNER
ciul Club of Chicago, an association Of
sixty merchants and manufacturers,
mostly merchants, not professional
man of any kind among them. Some
Of these sixty men are not what we
call educated men; others are college
bred Not the style Of college-brcd,
however who decry collegiate training
because it does not produce ready
made bookkeepers or railroad men,
but men who advocate the study of
Latin and Greek from a business point
OF view. These men founded the Cai-
cago Manual Training School; and
there was not schoolmastcr among
them.
To these facts may be added another,
viz. that the great majority Of visi-
tors 10 the Chicago Manual Training
school are business men, lawyers and
doctors. and they all regret that it was
not their good fortune to have such
training The clcrgymcn aud the
teachers, the men who come into
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generally eve it askance, Is it not
possible that "A wider acquaintance
with the actual needs of the age might
change the views OF the pedugo8les
and themini.ters? Areuotwe school
masters disposed to believe that there
is uo education except book educauon9
DO we not act ON the hypothesis even
if we disclaim il, that the object of ed
ucatiou is knowledge, Ignoring the
fundamental fact that the great end OF
education is action tbroRgh 5H0r'edgc?
Pcstalozli said, Education is the gen
GRAFTON of power. Huxley SAYS,
Nv That men need is rs much kuowl
edge as they can assimilatc and organ
ize into n basis for action
Our plans of primary education
change as the nature ot the child rs
better understood. The kindergarten
is great step Ia the direction OF train
ing the child i'm accordance with the
laws of its being. l expect to see the
use of things eucroach still more ON
the use Of bo9tS, i'm the early Years of
the chlds school life Rousseau rc-
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