Arizona republican., 1912-09-21
THE VALUE 0F
 MANUAL WORK
Professor Carroll Outlines Work Newly Instituted in High School and Gives Some Figures Concerning School Attendance

The manual training department of the Phoenix high school opens this year under most suspicious circum- stances The trustees have succeed ed in obtaining the services of Prof Carroll. formerly of the LeavenWorth, Kansas, manual training schools. Tn speaking yesterday of the work MT. Carroll said:
 The department of manual training in the high school was organized at the beginning of the present school year A special department for man uaI training has been set apart in the new high school. Provision is made for the first year for machine work cabinet work and for mechanical draw
 ing The manual room has an equip ment, which provides for class of twenty four boys working at one time,
 All the principle wood machines and bench tools are installed. Tn blaming and organizing the course of study the aim has been to l provide a complete system of manual work for all students in the first year | of high school.
 "The statistics in the reports of the i HuuCdIlOildf utD6tf lIlieHtS o1 tue 1Ililtu l States show that only about five per l cent of the school children of our i country ever reach the high school;
 while more than half the children 1 leave school before the completion of
 the sixth year of the elemantary | school Tn Phoenix probably not more l than forty or fifty per cent of the pu-
 pills reach the high school, or complete
 the eighth grade work. These figures l then indicate at once the vast import ance of the elementary school work when we consider the education of the i masses of our children. These facts f show also the vast importance of | something in the school curriculum which will correlate with the other
 subjects. train the eye and mind to- gether and at the same time be g
 means of holding the pupils interests
 at all times.
 Manual training then comes into the
 schools as this something, as a means
 of hand training, as a means of devel-
 oping the students powers of oppression
 and as a means of retaining the boy
 and girl in the school room.
 "The school in the past has practi. cally ignored tn motor side of the pu- pills life Modern psychology has clearly shown the intimate connection between the physical and mental life one can no longer speak of the edu cation of the hand. the intellect thu
 emotions and the win by differen methods Every good though strengthens some power of the bod7 and every wholesome exercise of tn, body invigorates the mind
 Manual training then is the one sub iect it would seem that has roots tha lie in the very nature of the child ant supplies the demand for a ful1 all sid { ed development of the individual anc { social powers
 S Correlation with other subjects T. } correate manual training with tn ! that win embody the fundamenta ! principles in the lesson in mathematic ! of today or review that of yesterday { The pupils aim is to do good work. an'
 make a neat durable and artistic mod el of his own. The problem involved i , in an obstruction that he must remOv ! and properly to, or fail in realizing hi | purpose. The emphasis may be pu ! upon the problem, yet the art in < voIved in the choice of size and shap } can in no way be avoided. The tw { run hand in hand with the pOssibl } method of decoration, an dare insep ] arable"