Whittaker & Co.'s List of Classical, Educational and Technical Works. July 1889

2, White Hart Street, Paternoster Square, E.C.
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Mr. Leland’s Educational Publications.
Third Edition, Crown 8vo, Cloth, 6s.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION. A WORK ON PREPARING THE MEMORY, DEVELOPING QUICKNESS OF PERCEPTION, AND TRAINING THE CONSTRUCTIVE FACULTIES.
By CHARLES G. LELAND. Author of “The Minor Arts,” “Twelve Manuals of Art Work,” “The Album of Repoussé Work,” “Industrial Art in Education, or Circular No. 4, 1882,” “Hints on Self-Education,” etc.
Mr. Leland was the first person to introduce Industrial Art as a branch of education in the public schools of America. The Bureau of Education at Washington, observing the success of his work, employed him in 1862 to write a pamphlet showing how hand-work could be taken or taught in schools and families. It is usual to issue only 15,000 of these pamphlets, but so great was the demand for this that in two years after its issue more than 60,000 were given to applicants. This work will be found greatly enlarged in “Practical Education.” Owing to it thousands of schools, classes, or clubs of industrial art were established in England, America and Austria. As at present a great demand exists for information as to organizing Technical Education, this forms the first part of the work. In it the author indicates that all the confusion and difference of opinion which at present prevails as to this subject, may very easily be obviated by simply beginning by teaching the youngest the easiest arts of which they are capable, and by thence gradually leading them on to more advanced work.
“The basis of Mr. Leland’s theory,” says a reviewer, “is that before learning, children should acquire the art of learning. It is not enough to fill the memory, memory must first be created. By training children to merely memorize, extraordinary power in this respect is to be attained in a few months. With this is associated exercises in quickness of perception, which are at first purely mechanical, and range from merely training the eye to mental arithmetic, and problems in all branches of education. Memory and quickness of perception blend in the development of the constructive faculties or hand-work. Attention or interest is the final factor in this system.”