Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
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III.--INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. Trade classes and schools, their importance in the international market--Our dangers and the superiority of German workmen--The effects of a tariff--Description of schools between the kindergarten and the industrial school--Equal salaries for teachers in France--Dangers from machinery--The advantages of life on the old New England farm--Its resemblance to the education we now give negroes and Indians--Its advantage for all-sided muscular development IV.--MANUAL TRAINING AND SLOYD. History of the movement--Its philosophy--The value of hand training in the development of the brain and its significance in the making of man--A grammar of our many industries hard--The best we do can reach but few--Very great defects in manual training methods which do not base on science and make nothing salable--The Leipzig system--Sloyd is hypermethodic--These crude peasant industries can never satisfy educational needs--The gospel of work; William Morris and the arts and crafts movement--Its spirit desirable--The magic effects of a brief period of intense work--The natural development of the drawing instinct in the child V.--GYMNASTICS The story of Jahn and the Turners--The enthusiasm which this movement generated in Germany--The ideal of bringing out latent powers--The |
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