NOTE: This is Post 2 read ReSAW first.
This is the second book that I found. It is titled: "Manual Training For Common Schools" by Eldred G. Allen
It is copyright 1910. Mr. Allen was an instructor in Wood-Working in the Manual Training High School, Indianapolis, Indiana.
I would try to right about the past and how much has changed since this book, but I want the author to speak directly to you. The following is the opening paragraph of the Introduction.
"The child is both physical and spiritual, and education must, therefore, consider both body and soul. Grace and beauty in form, strength and health of body, and skill in execution, are all matters that must be provided for in the course of study. The aesthetic and hygienie phases of child life have been recognized, and when the practical side receives the attention which it merits, head, hand, and heart will become allies in education. Every child must be taught to work, and to the degree in which the home neglects this part of his education, the school must, whether it would or not, take up this phase of his training and carry it to completion. The course of study of the future will provide a complete system of manual training through the grades and high school."
Later in the Introduction was this statement of the times in 1910:
"The problem of education is industrial as well as academic. Of the 32,000,000 bread-winners in this country, some thirty million must work with their hands. Education must, therefore, exalt the dignity of labor; it must teach habits of industry; it must give ability to apply one's self to the problem in hand; it must meet the demand for accurate skillful work. The school work must be more practical for the army of children in the grades, four-fifths of whom will never reach the high school."
WOW!
PS: The third photo is the inside cover of my Dad's text book. I had never seen sketches or drawings by my Dad! This was a super cool moment for me.
Sorry the introduction page came out upside down!
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