Manual Training Magazine, Volumes 3-4University of Chicago Press, 1902 - Manual training |
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Page 128 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Page 180 - The purpose of this school is to furnish to young people of both sexes mental and manual training in the arts and sciences, including agriculture, mechanics, engineering, business methods, domestic economy, and such other branches as will fit the students for the non-professional walks of life.
Page 164 - ... with the defects of which they are accused. But they are convicted in this respect only because they have first been condemned to isolation. As representatives of serious and permanent interests of humanity, they possess an intrinsic dignity which it is the business of the educator to take account of. To ignore them, to deny them a rightful position in the educational circle, is to maintain within society that very cleft between so-called material and spiritual interests which it is the business...
Page 163 - I could emphasize the need of a more comprehensive curriculum for the high school no better than to quote Dr. Dewey of Columbia University, who says: "The wider (cosmopolitan) high school relieves many of the difficulties in the adequate treatment of the individual. It brings the individual into a wider sphere of contacts and thus makes it possible to test him and his capacity for thoroughness. The need is for a region of opportunities large enough and balanced enough to meet the individual on his...
Page 127 - This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — There's nothing true but Heaven...
Page 163 - The need is for a region of opportunities large enough and balanced enough to meet the individual on his every side and provide for him that which is necessary to arouse and direct Our task is on the one hand to...
Page 190 - ... to a stage of youthful interest, of which the college professor knows little. High-school physics has problems all its own, to which its representatives should address themselves with courage, resolution, and above all with independence, or else the present decadent tendencies, more due to college control, through the undue influence of examinations and standards, than to them, will continue, and with it the scientific movement, of which it is in a sense the pioneer, will suffer still more.
Page 189 - He is often a walking interrogation-point about ether, atoms, X-rays, nature of electricity, motors of many kinds, with a native gravity of his mind toward those frontier questions where even the great masters know as little as he. He is in the questioning age, but wants only answers that are vague, brief, but above all suggestive ; and in all this he is true to the great law that the development of the individual in any line of culture tends to repeat the history of the race in that field. 4. Last,...
Page 163 - ... direct. Finally, the objection usually urged to the broader high school is, when rightly considered, the strongest argument for its existence. I mean the objection that the introduction of manual training and commercial studies is a cowardly surrender on the part of liberal culture of the training of the man as a man, to utilitarian demands for specialized adaptation to narrow callings. There is nothing in any one study or any one calling which makes it in and of itself low or meanly practical....
Page 14 - The rude strength of the primaeval hunters, fishers, farmers, and shepherds has grown, with experience, into the skill and art of our civilization. This has been the educational process thru which the race has passed — self-activity aroused by need. The result is our present state of society, with its sum of knowledge and stored-up power — knowledge organized into sciences, mathematics, history, civil law, philosophy ; power expressing itself as skill in the arts of living — agriculture, manufacturing,...