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INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION
A TRAINING PERIOD.—INDEPENDENT HOMES.—DOMESTIC TRAINING.—HIGHLAND PARK COLLEGE.—BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.—SAM DALY.
"Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work."
"What thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."
Public education is at present passing through a transition stage. The emphasis in the school courses of previous generations was upon the culture of the mind and the appeal was made for a high classical training, but now that the work on the farms as well as in the shops is largely done by costly machinery, the emphasis of school work is being rapidly transferred to the hand, and the appeal is for manual or vocational training and domestic science.
Its aim is to reach and train for a successful self-supporting career, the great majority of young people who cannot pursue their studies beyond the fifth to the eighth grades.
Our country has made wonderful progress in the arts and sciences including new inventions, during the last half century. The scope of the "Natural Philosophy" and "Familiar Science" of a few years ago has been very greatly enlarged.