the top, and in 48 hours it was pulled down and the drawing commenced. Packed with the hard glazes at the bottom and the soft at the top this kiln answered excellently for the purposes for which it was required.
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CHAPTER XVI
The Educational Value of Pottery
“The principal point in Education is that one’s knowledge of the World begins at the right End.”
—Schopenhauer.
The study of the fictile art of the potter, even from the theoretical side alone, cannot fail to quicken and broaden education. The antiquity of the craft, stimulating research amongst the records of ancient civilizations, brings to light customs and habits bearing very closely upon the earliest struggles of man to emancipate himself from mere brute surroundings. The primitive decorations rudely scratched on clay vessels antedate and forecast the hieroglyphic and sign languages of all nations.