Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-19
THE RELATION OF MANUAL
TRAINING TO THE TRADES.
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| mediate relation to the various trades.
such a course, however. should NOT be
mere apprenticeship, but should be
strictly educational II must be sys-
temi2ed, /. e. II must be progressive;
llrst principles must be given careful
attention, elementary processes must
be well worked out fhe laboratory
mthod applies here as wei as I'm phys
les chemistry or biology Ii is not at
all essential that the products should
be series or household on CONNER
olal articles, 1t would be extremely
dllIicult TO arrange series Of exercises
so That one should Involve the principles
ana parts OF ali or most preceding eX-
ercises, and one new cement at the
same time represent one whole and
complete useful article.
Too much stress has been placed up-
on the commercial value OF the article,
IN great many cases at the sacrifice
or continuity and conference. Too often
mas the primary object been useful ar
ticles rather than a useful boy or girl
NO one viii contend that a knowledge
or the elementary proposition OF geOm-
etry that THE angles on one side of a
straight line are equivalent to two night
angles is of any value except as it
comes In as an element into more COM
plicated practical problems Of geom-
etry. No one viii contend that the ee-
mentary law by which hydrogen and
sulphur combine to form sulphurated
hydrogen Is OF any direct value, except
In so far as It becomes an elementary
part Of a vastly more complicated pro.
cess In pharmacy or applied chemistry.
SO with manual training, IL the pupil
cannot grasp the full value of any par
ticular exercise, even though that eX-
ercise does not represent a gown,
chair, or locomotive, as In all other
departments, he must take something
on trust. | well remember such puz-
cling questions as why do you tty
to learn to read2' why do you study
United states history etc. Much
must be taken on trust and there is no
good reason why this trust element
should be used IN one department and
rigtdly banished from the other
Not only should the set OF exercises
forming the system 40 a whole be thus
carefully systemi2ed, but each individ-
ual exercise should be presented and
executed in a regular and logical or
dr., Correct methods of handling tools
should be closely guarded and any cor
rect, inconvenient, or awkward manip-
ulatlon, which might have been acqu'r-
ed by untutored practise, should be dis
couraged at the outset Working draw
ings Irregular scale drawings, not
sketches) should be provided, showing
the order OF operation Of each indi-
vidual exercise. The student Will
quickly learn to interpret these and he
VIII naturally depart from an inclina-
ton to initiate a model As little OPP
portunty as possible should be allowed
for trying and fitting as work proceeds.
The student must learn to LAY OUT his
work accurately, and work to the line,
Strict adherence to the dimensions OF
the drawing must be rigidly enforced
Here the teacher will find one Of his
chief troubles, Our boys Il do not know
30 much about the girls are naturally
inclined to be sloyenly in their work
and extravaganza lin material. They are
inclined to think that ns long as they
tlll the bill' II matters not whether a
bolt head, for example, is one-siXteenth
inch smaller or larger than called for
by the drawing II the result is not in
every particular according to the draw
ing, the pupil should be impressed with
the fact that he has made something
different from that which he started
out to make. Many mechanical gen
fuses" will appear and the teacher vii
be pestered with requests to allow indi-
vidual pupils TO tinker with what they