Excerpt from Industrial Studies: United States
This is an industrial era. The nations which lead industrially are the controlling nations of the world. Nine tenths of the pupils in our schools will enter some form of industrial life. We are dependent for our food, clothing, and shelter on the great industries in our own and other countries. The whole world is united by a network of industrial and commercial chains.
A practical knowledge of the United States can be gained largely through a study of its industries. In this way the pupil is brought into direct touch with practical life and with that form of human effort which has, to a great extent, determined the rank and position of this country among nations.
In these Studies each industry is dealt with as a type, in order that the pupil meeting with the same subject in later work will understand its essential features.
The physical geography treated of in the early chapters is closely connected with the industries dealt with in later portions of the book. Such topics as soil, surface, climate, drainage, etc., will assume a definite, concrete form in the child's mind if studied not as detached subjects but as underlying causes of the success of certain great industries. If pupils learn to look for some of the causes of our industrial life in the physiography of the country, they will be better able, in studying other continents, to trace the connection between physical features and the industries which depend upon them.
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