Report of the Commission on Industrial Education, Made to the Legislature of Pennsylvania |
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Page 126 - It is not assumed that every boy who enters this school will be a mechanic. Some will find that they have no taste for manual arts, and will turn into other paths — law, medicine or literature. Some, who develop both natural skill and strong intellectual powers, will push on through the Polytechnic School into the higher realms of professional life, as engineers or scientists.
Page 25 - ... the Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools for the instruction of all the children in this State between the ages of five and eighteen years.
Page 28 - Any city or town may, and every city and town having more than ten thousand inhabitants, shall annually make provision for giving free instruction in industrial or mechanical drawing to persons over fifteen years of age, either in day or evening schools, under the direction of the school committee.
Page 173 - The scope of a single trade is too narrow for educational purposes. Manual education should be as broad and liberal as intellectual. A shop which manufactures for the market, and expects a revenue from the sale of its products, is necessarily confined to salable work ; and a systematic and progressive series of lessons is impossible, except at great cost. If the object of the shop is education, a student should be allowed to discontinue any task or process the moment he has learned to do it well....
Page 143 - Manual training is essential to the right and full development of the human mind, and therefore no less beneficial to those who are not -going to become artisans than to those who are. * * * The workshop method of instruction is of great educational value, for it brings the learner face to face with the facts of nature; his mind increases in knowledge by direct personal experience...
Page 174 - In the school-shop the stage of mechanical habit is never reached. The only habit actually acquired is that of thinking. No blow is struck, no line drawn, no motion regulated, from muscular habit. The quality of every act springs from the conscious will accompanied by a definite act of jndgment.
Page 267 - The second-year class contains already several excellent draughtsmen, and not a few pattern-makers of accuracy and skill. The habit of working from drawings and to nice measurements has given the students a confidence in themselves altogether new. This is shown in the readiness with which they undertake the execution of small commissions in behalf of the school, or for the students of other departments.
Page 27 - Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations.
Page 126 - Brazing and Soldering, the use of Machine-Shop Tools, and such other instruction of a similar character as it may be deemed advisable to add to the foregoing from time to time.
Page 28 - A town may establish and maintain one or more industrial schools, and the school committee shall employ the teachers, prescribe the arts, trades and occupations to be taught therein, and have the general control and management thereof; but...