Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-03-09
or later be the universal language
Of India.

| SA AANAAs
Manual training means the
systematic study of the theory
and use of common tools, the
nature of common materials,
elementary and typical processes
of construction and the execution
and readings of work drawings.
The material may be wood,
| metals, alloys, or plastic miner
ais. The drawings include free
hand and instrumental with pen,
pencil and brush.
The object is to furnish a
broader and more appropriate
foundation for higher technical
education; to serve as develop
ing school where pupils could
discover their inborn capacities
and aptitudes, whether in the
direction of literature, science,
engineering, or practical arts; to
provide elementary mathemat-
les, science and language.
Its function is to develop the
brain through the use OF the
hand and eye and thus increase
its control over tools and mater
ial. 1t is the only way to teach
accuracy and precision to young
boys and girls-in other words,
it means expression" The OBJ
| ject of manual training is not to
supercede trade schools, but its
real aim is to develop, strengthen
and discipline the executive abil-
ity of man. Manual training is
a necessary item in the curricu-
lum of modern education, for the
reason that it gives skill in the
use of tools and the process of
construction.
| What we want today is to COM
bine manual with mental train
ing; to put the liberal arts and
the mechanical arts into the sa me
curriculum; to deal Simultaneous
| ly with material forces and ap-
pliances with spiritual forces and
appliances. Those who hold thai
tools and shops would lower the
educational tone and degrade the
high purposes of the school and
that the time spent in manual
, training would be intellectual
loss, should come and visit Amer
ica and they will soon get rid O.
the delusion, for they would fine
. that all such fears are groundles:
and that manual training, in
stead of debasing, elevates thu
character, promotes coordination
and develops creativeness.
The universities of India toda,
f divorce knowing from doing
! exaggerate the former at the ex
pense of the latter. The univer
stiles of India take the student
, into palatial building and teacl
them to be helpless all thei
: lives, because they teach moth
ing useful and handy. In Amer.
E ica manual training is required
: of every boy in school and is op
5 tional in colleges. No schoo
omitting manual training is con
, sidered worth the name in Amer
c ica or Germany.
Industrial training should b
: impaired to stimulate and quicke,
the sensations of men and not t
: make them stolid by giving then
d rough, hard work. The labor
atory of an industrial school ca
;, be utilized for educating work
ingmen to the requirements {
their trades by night. Th
teachers in the night schoo
should be the men of practice
experience and should teach tn
subjects that they are we'll verse
e in. Speaking of trade nigh
Il schoels, Officer Ballet, of the [
e S. A, says:
l. "Teaching trades at publ
: schools is the feature of our publ
d schools; it is growing rapidly i
favor and is destined to become
e permanent and important part {
,e the school system of our cite
it Such evening trade schools ca
l. not only use the shop equipment
J. of manual training high school
~, hut thew cau have free use 4,