Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION The present fearful waste of pubescents--Very few children have intellectual tinterests--Industrial training in the old guilds--Arts and crafts movement--Causes of the decline of the apprentice system-- Its relation to labor unions--Description of a score of new types of industrial schools--The Munich system described and criticised-- Failure of manual training--A proposed substitute for it--Making of toys and simple scientific apparatus--Correlation of industrial training with race history--How the former should stimulate reading-- Relations to puppet theaters--Interest in firearms, tops, kites, and airships--Vocational bureaus--Educational advantage of utility--Our system undemocratic--Stress on industrial environment--Need of a book on the leading trades--Our industrial life imperiled--Reduction of natural resources--A substitute for military training--Commercial education--Business schools and colleges--Trade, general; skilled labor, special--Education for the former--Nature study and agriculture--Industrial education of girls--Difficulties of the problem-- New departures--Domestic versus trade training--The German kitchen, clothes, children, church. Next to moral education, to which the last few chapters have been devoted, industrial training is by general consent the greatest and most urgent problem confronting the American people. Its dimensions, complexities, and difficulties are even greater than those most interested have yet begun to realize. The vast majority of American children now leave school near the dawn of adolescence, just when the soul is most docile and eager, and when education in all the past has begun. It is precisely this nascent and most educable period that under present...
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