The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-12-26
MANUAL
TRAINING
IN SCHOOL
scon,Inued from PAGE ona,

tSohtfnueu " ON race On01
grammar or arithmetic somewhere
near right" is usually contented with
his success But lot him make a box
or even fold q paper. Sc that corners
or edges are net true aaa ali his com.
rades laugh at h.m. School sentiment
SonlSnns and ridicnles poor work
were rs y never viii mistakes in rect.
tsficn.
In the seeopd place II Is now cen.
ceded by careful students and iavcs-
toSatoSs that manual training helps
develop the executive faculty, L e.
tho pcwer OF doing taings rather than
Just thinking o. them. Our schools
must help 10 develop men OF power
Ard dexterity in action as wenas In
thought and logic. When people are
that they nc longer act. they cease TO
be desirable citizens.
Then too when q child Is given
some hanGwcrk 20 do he becomes in
terested at once He attempts 10
make . COX aud soon finds that ae
can not MAKE II IL > seax minutes or
even longer; he finds Il more diff
cut and complex faan he had lnlagln-
ed, he must work harder and more
carefully Ehan be al first expec-e6
lie must be careful and painstaking
With all his Measurements and calcu.
iaticns. he must be careful and nus,
PERSIST. two shings every person
should learn 10 do. Then too. when
he has made one thing ne desires to
make something more difficult and
llnner and better. He works and en-
Joys |. spo. II rae great lesson az
work can be taught is not a step be-
Ing taken In thc solution of the pr1b.
lem cs educationg
yery likely what taae boy makes is
Ter father. or mother. and is his first
contribution. perhaps 10 the comfort
ana welfare 70 the family. He be-
gins 70 appreciate his own possible
worth and usefulness A boy w-h7 has
nad five or six years al such training
will not be content IL IT, dreamer
One 0s The chieg purposes G. edu- /
cataoRf II "a enable Rs to expross
our Dest anrgaiS ara conceptions ]
composition etc. are ,ai /
nahle mainly rs shes~ mae us mas
teFs the ART ef verbal expression. i
l5sa' tnnughfs and character. can be +
lnpre skferNffiy expressed la deeds +.
thsn IA " sds, Tac painter AZ por-
srssts &c landscapes has a place as 1
MeA aS The asographer or poet, The \
inventor Is needed as well as the in- 1
Nest tiEassr ses svteaufic matters. h 4
not appreciation due the artisan Rho I
produces an article Ms nearly perfect h
as naSsible vfAe he carpenter. cabinet
irskcr or banker Is not expression
through haudwark as deserving 81 4
pace 10 our edaeati ma system as
raltlvaiacn of expression througa
wor1s1
Aanual training tends 20 teach
shliaren e appreciate the value of
psnual training as e1emplstied n
,ae various trades snd certainly this
y wholesome effect. II eanehIes
aonest. persistent effort and surely
I + needed 70 place work with the
lands IN the pi2cc which il must &C.
,apy.
Il Is nyg z rad as one sometimes
learS said. Il has been recognized
= ot value hy the leading educators
nd statesmen for many years: il
las found place Ia rAe course ~
t96y u various cities and toxins /
- N~fE ~&A " AAA& GNkA~ fkhNtQ IN g
sore scapoas and is not hctng drop
I'd fFou the courses e study even
? cities ihst have bad tthe longest |
has been emphasized in Jewish I
d1rsron SAYS fae Talmad: The
.uSss : ths es xltheslts oecapsssonst
Ag wH 9ipally be inserrupte1i
2d-fnd Sfh The father MO
res net teach ais child trade ]
rings aim up 70 be .A-zopber. Ana
e aistst rrRemaer that one thiaS 1
wish sdccation has done and thar :
e Rreserre intacf the deStrac- e
'r = their nati0usl government. !
ld. goo. ~e mignt remember tast i
Q grest philosopher Spinoza. usds !.
ectscles and Saint PAU VAS a teat-
lker Il
faere seems & &c Just nsW ; tend
y and attempt e make manual 81
mag Inferpref and give expression ~
re and acre 10 the Life q tkel "a
This wia make tt Stfll u,oret
1sele IL tESiuIag and developing
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