Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-09
MANUAL TRAINING.

Prof. w. E. Hicks of Glendale, who
has been chosen as president of the man
ual training school at that place to be
opened to the public this fall, suggests
to the Tribune that the idea of the scope
and work of the new institution is not
generally understood or appreciated
through the state-that many people be-
lieve it will take the place of a reform
school. That the work of the school
may be better understood, Prof. Hicks
outlines the course of study and quotes
as follows from one of the leading jour
nails:
l. The Humanistic, or Language
Group. This includes English language
and literature: French, German, Span
ish or Latin; history, civics and eco
Monies.
9. The Mathematical Group. This
covers advanced arithmetic, plane and
solid geometry, algebra, plane trigonom-
etry, elementary surveying and book
keeping.
3. The Science Group. This includes
physical geography, biology, physics,
chemistry and an introduction to steam
and electrical engineering.
1. The Drawing. This is both me.
chanical and freehand, and includes in.
%struction in clay modelling, in plant
analysis for decorative purposes, and
somewhat of the history and practice OF
architecture.
5. The Manual Training. This is the
most distinctive part of the curriculum
and includes wood work-joinery, pattern
making, turning and carving: vice work
chipping, filing and fitting; smithing
sheet-metal work and finally the machine.
tool practice in constructive work.
sin most of the schools this work occu.
pies three years, which, as Prof. Hender.
son cogently argues, is not time enough
"ln several western cities, notably
Kansas City, Denver and San Francisco
the girls are given cooking, sewing, etc.
as a natural part of their work, but in
most eastern cities, girls are not as yet
even admitted to the manual training
schools proper, a fact which sufficiently
attests the slow progress of educational
reform in those cities.
1T should be evident from the forego.
ing outline that the manual training
school proposes to be no mere refuge for
dull-witted children, nor yet an appren.
tice school where the vice and the jack
plane take the place of books. What is
proposed is a proper balancing of the
educative efforts. Advocates of manua.
training believe that the body as we'll as
the mind needs educating-in fact, must
be- educated, if we are to have zane and
symmetrical men and women. They
hold that the fine training of the sho1
school, which disciplines the hand, gives
accuracy to the eye, and strength ane
precision to the muscles, is as good fol
the millionaire's son and daughter as i
is for the child of the mechanic. So fal
from manual training being a marrow
plan of unitarian education for tn,
masses only, it is in fact the yer,
broadcast scheme of culture that has We
been proposed. 1t rests upon the plail
truth that the brain is not all there is t.
a perfected man or woman, and that tn
so-called material powers need the edu
cative process quite as surely as do tn
reason, the memory, the Imagination. ete
The masses of successful men and womel
must always be creatures of physica
action, who need power, discipline an
~self-control of their physical organiza
ton lust as they require the finer pre-
cesses of mind culture. The mental an
the physical education of our childre
should be blended, as mental and phys
ical activities are blended in adult life.