The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-02
COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.
Addressed by Principal Rowe of Lowell
School,

| School,
The Connecticut Council of Education
met at the high school building in Hart
ford Saturday. J. T. Corlew of STRAIT
ford was elected president of the asso-
citation for the ensuing year, e. c. An
S. p. Willard of Colchester secretary
and treasurer Among the subjects
treated was Manual Training in the
High School," which was handled by
Charles B. Howe, superintendent of the
Hartford high school. Manual Train
ing in the Grammar School, was treat
ed in paper by Principal Graves of the
| South school.
| Mr.. Howe said that manual training
| in the high school was based upon
broadening of the scope Of secondary
education Its educational value was
well understood by school men, but its
ultimate object was largely ignored.
In order to realize its best results and
fullest possibilities it's technical side
should be strongly presented When
manual training is introduced into
high school time must be provided IN
which to give the pupils opportunity 70
do the work, and If the student is to
take a complete course in manual train
ing it should take the place of some
academic subject. Time Is not the only
prerequisite to the successful admins
tration of manual training in high
school. Money is needed also. Tools
and machinery are needed and good re-
IA ~ $40 tx,p1
and other things which it takes money
to buy. 1t has been found that the
manual training work best suited to
high school work includes cabnet-mak-
ing, wood-turning, making,
molding, forging, Woodworking, ma
chine tool practice, experimental labor
atory work in applied electricity and
the steam engine, and constructive
drawing. The work for girls covers do
nestle science and art, modelling and
carving Venetian iron work and con-
structive drawing.
Principal Graves said that Hartford
had nearly three years experience and
observation of the working of manual
training. He thought it was yet too
early to look for results, but the day for
argument as to the desirability and me-
cessity for manual training in the pub
lie schools, Mr. Graves thought, had
passed. The only objection that was
made against the introduction Of man
ual training even in the lower grades
was the expense. This objection might
be honestly hade in some places, where
schools had grown rapidly and out of
proportion to the taxable property, but
each year would see manual training
added to the curriculum In new towns
and districts and increased in it's appli-
cation where it had already been
adopted
The first obvious result connected
with its introduction, Principal Graves
said, was increased attendance in the |
upper grades, and the second was great |
er interest in school work. 1t had brok-
en- the monotony Of school routine and
had made the school life more attrac-
tive. The manual training courses had |
been in operation in Hartford long
enough to show that they were not at
tractive simply by reason of their nov
city, and only in a slight degree as a
refuge from the monotony of the school
room. ts t''
III TIE luIlu pidCS, IIldDuui tIuiiiAi6
afforded children who have musical or |
ability, but who are slow
In thought and speech, an equal oppor-
tunity with the more active pupil.
Principal Stuart H. Rowe of the
Lowell school in New Haven discussed
1.-The Practical Applications of the Hy-
yiene, of Instruction" He said that the
hygiene of, instruction was practically
4 study of those features of educational
principle or method which were most
likely to result in worry, confusion,
furry, interference with steady pro-
yressiveness in work and the deadening
Of the self-active power. Sound peda-
yogy was essentially hygienic, though in
is application it might lose this char
acteristic by neglect to take into ac-
count details
w. H. Burnham of Worcester spoke
IN the "Hygienic Aspects Of Education
IL Principles and Methods" large
number of educators at the meeting dis
,ussed the subjects treated In the pa
)ers.