Manual Training Magazine, Volumen13

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Charles Alpheus Bennett
University of Chicago Press, 1912

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Página 459 - Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes ; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.
Página 370 - The next annual meeting of the National Education Association will be held in Chicago, July 6-12, 1912.
Página 198 - ... interests. It is the only influence that will preserve a homogeneous people. In thus amalgamating the vocational and the non-vocational, I would like to say a word for what might be called the parallel system as distinct from the stratified. That is, I would have a boy from his first day in the high school to his last have to do with both the vocational and the non-vocational. I would have him every day take stock of things vocational in terms of world values. I would have him devote a full fourth...
Página 141 - A brief, clear, comprehensive text printed in sepia and illustrated with wash drawings and a water-color painting by the author.
Página 141 - This book combines the features of a working guide for the kitchen laboratory with those of a handbook for study and reference.
Página 96 - This description is given thru directions for making a few simple, useful articles suitable either for school or home problems. The book contains more than one hundred original pen sketches and ten working drawings by Edwin V. Lawrence.
Página 96 - This book is a notable addition to the literature of educational handwork. In a masterly way it discusses handwork from the sociological, technological, psychological, and art points of view. It traces instruction in handwork through the history of education, points out its place in the several types of schools, and gives a rapid survey of modern systems of handwork in the leading civilized countries of the world. It is a book that has long been needed. The Pupils
Página 457 - despondent about the education we give at "our so-called classical schools. Here, you " know, we are severely classical ; and to have "to administer such a system is often more "than I can bear with dignity or philosophy. " One sees arrive here every year a lot of " brisk, healthy boys, with fair intelligence, " and quite disposed to work ; and at the other "end one sees depart a corresponding set of "young gentlemen who know nothing, and can "do nothing, and are profoundly cynical about "all intellectual...
Página 96 - CLAY WORK. By Katherine Morris Lester. This book was written by a grade teacher and art worker to help teachers in acquiring the technique of clay working, and to give them suggestions concerning the teaching of the several types of clay work suited to pupils in the elementary schools. It covers the study of natural forms, the human figure in relief, and the round, an i msi forms-, story illustration, architectural ornament, tiles, hand- built pottery and pottery decoration.

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