Educational Revolution in 1883-4. — Urgent Demand for Reform. — Existing Schools denounced as Superficial, their Methods as Automatic, their System as a Mixture of Cram and Smatter. — The Controversy between the School-master of the Old Régime and the Reformer. — The Leaders of the Movement, Col. Parker, Dr. MacAlister, and others — followers of Rousseau, Bacon, and Spencer. — “The End of Man is an Action, not a Thought.” — The Conservative Teachers fall into Line. — The New Education becomes an Aggressive Force pushing on to Victory. — The Physical Progress of Manual Training — its Quality not equal to its Extent. — The New System of Training confided to Teachers of the Old Régime. — Ideal Teachers hard to find. — Teachers willing to Learn should be Encouraged. — The effects of Manual Training long antedate its Introduction to the Schools. — Bacon’s Definition of Education. — Stephenson and the Value of Hand-work. — Manual Training is the union of Thought and Action. — It is the antithesis of the Greek methods, which exalted Abstractions and debased Things. — The Rule of Comenius and the Injunction of Rousseau — few Teachers comprehend them. — The Employment of the Hands in the Arts is more highly Educative than the acquisition of the rules of Reading and Arithmetic. — What the Locomotive has accomplished for Man. — Education must be equal, and Social and Political Equality will follow. — The foundation of the New Education is the Baconian Philosophy as stated by Macaulay. — Use and Service are the Twin-ministers of Human Progress. — Definitions of Genius. — Attention. — Sir Henry Maine. — Manual Training relates to all the Arts of Life. — Mind and Hand. — Newton and the Apple. — The Sense of Touch resides in the Hand. — Robert Seidel on Familiarity with Objects. — Material Progress the basis of Spiritual Growth. — Plato and the Divine Dialogues. — Poverty, Society, and the Useful Arts. — Selfishness must give way to Altruism. — The Struggle of Life. — The Progress of the Arts and the final Regeneration of the Race. — The Arts that make Life sweet and beautiful. — The final Fundamental Educational Ideal is Universality. — Comenius’s definition of Schools — the Workshops of Humanity. — That one Man should die ignorant, who had capacity for Knowledge, is a Tragedy. — Mental and Manual Exercises to be rendered homogeneous in the School of the Future. — The hero of the Ideal School.[370]
APPENDIX[387]
INDEX[427]
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| Portrait of the Author | [Frontispiece] |
| The Laboratory of Carpentry | [23] |
| Course in the Laboratory of Carpentry | [27] |
| The Wood-turning Laboratory | [31] |
| Course in the Wood-turning and Pattern Laboratory | [41] |
| The Founding Laboratory | [49] |
| Course in the Founding Laboratory | [53] |
| The Forging Laboratory | [59] |
| Course in the Forging Laboratory | [67] |
| The Machine-tool Laboratory | [79] |
| The Chipping, Filing, and Fitting Laboratory | [89] |
| Course in the Machine-tool Laboratory | [95] |
| The Students with their Books | [107] |
| M. Victor Della-Vos, the Founder of Manual Training in Russia | [329] |
| Dr. John D. Runkle, the Founder of Manual Training in the United States | [335] |
POWER.
“His tongue was framed to music,
And his hand was armed with skill;
His face was the mould of beauty,
And his heart the throne of will.”
—Emerson.
MIND AND HAND:
MANUAL TRAINING THE CHIEF FACTOR IN EDUCATION.