The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-05-12
WRITES OF
WORK IN
TRAINING
PLYMOUTH BOY GIVES AR
TICLE WHILE ATTEND
ING VALPARAISO
UNIVERSITY.
Lloyd Greiner Tells of Manual
Training Work in Schools and
Its History-Delivered Be
fore Arts and Crafts Club

| The following article was pre-
scented by Lloyd f. Greiner o
this city, before the Arts anc
Craft Club, Valparaiso University
and published in the Valparaiso
University Herald, April %, 1910
Lloyd will graduate from the
Manual Training Department
Valparaiso University in August
1910.
Pioneers of Manual Training
Each subject of study now
found in our schools has been in
PRODUCED because of its evident
necessity to the life work of the
people. SO, also, with the subject
of Manual Training. Through the
study OF this subject, men and
women have seen its necessity to
the growth and welfare of man
kind They saw the need of a
study OF industrial work to fit the
people for useful lives and to be-
come thereby good citizens. These
far-seerng men and women have
thus become Pioneers OF Manual
Training"
Manual Training is Compare
lively new subject, having receiv-
ed its first official recognition as
a school subject, in Europe about
1858. 1t is to Uno Cygnaeus (Sig,
ne-us) of Finland that is due the
recognition as the first noted
Pioneer OF Manual Training
Cygnaeus was a native of Fin
| land, a minister and teacher al
PWiborg, and for some time the
I.spiritual. dhtetor of a colony al
| Sitka, Alaska. I'm 1861 he was ap-
pointed chief inspector OF the
Finnish public schools, which he
thoroughly organized. He organ
lied a plan of Manual Training
work for the primary schools Of
Ibis country and in 1886 he made
instruction in some branch O
| Manual, or Sioyd work ,compul'
sorry in the training colleges foi
male teachers, and in all primary
schools for boys in the country
districts.
We owe much to Sweden fc1
the development of Manua
Training and especially Sloyo
work. They saw need for the
study and in 1874 under the direc.
ton OF, Otto Solomon, the Sloyt
| Saminarium of Mas (Nase) wa:
established Through the influence
of Otto Solomon's school not on
lly all Sweden was brought under
| the banner of Manual Training
but it had an influence upon the
thought and practice o., othel
| countries.
Its to Victor Della Vos, dlrec.
tor of the Imperial Technica
|School for Government Engineer:
at St. Petersburg that we owe tht
present method of teaching Man
ual Training. This method p
known as the Russian Method
and vas brought before the worle
| in 1868. Della Vos conceived thu
plan of first teaching the elements
of a certain kind. of tool work
Systematically by means o
models and drawings and practice
exercises before any attemp
should be made at the execution
of tradelwork. His motto was
instruction before Construction,
/ DR.. Waldemar Gotz founded I;
Manual Training Seminary a
Leipzig, which has become TIN
active center of the movement
and the main institution for thu
work in Germany.
The growth of Manual Train
ing in the United States ha
been. and is rapid. In 1880
through the efforts of DR.. CALVIN
A. Woodward, school O
Manual Training was opened IL
connection with the Washington
University of St. Louis. Thu
school attracted wide attention
and it's success led to the speed,
organization of similar school,
in other large cities OF tn
United States.
Through the efforts and imam
cial support of Mrs. Quincy A
; Shaw. of Boston school for eX
perinental classes in carpentr,
! was founded. These classes wer
conducted by Gustaf LARSON a
the Dwight School, but were late
taken under the care OF Boston
Mr.. LARSON, our creates
pioneer OF Manual Training II
America, was born in Sweden
receiving his education in his ma
tive country. After deciding t
! engage in the teachers probes
sion, he entered the Mas Sloy'
Seminary in 1881 and took train
ing for this special field OF work
under the direction of Herr OFT
Solomon.
: From there he went to in
= Northwestern part OF Sweden an
} established four Sloyd school:
2 training both teachers and CHI
dren-the teachers eventually TAX
ing charge of their respectiv
schools.
: Ia 1888 Mr.. LARSON came t
e Boston with the purpose OF inter
I esting American educators in tn
I Swedish system of Manual Train
ing. Although the Russian syster