Excerpt from Industrial Drawing in Public Schools
Firsts, Industrial Drawing has the forms of plane and solid geometry for its basis. When the two dimensions - length and breadth - are to be represented, the exercises should, therefore, begin with the drawing of plane geometrical forms, and by gradual steps advance to the application of these forms to practical design and to the different mechanical arts.
Second, When the three dimensions - length, breadth, and thickness - are to be represented, the exercises should begin with the drawing of solid geometrical forms, and by gradual steps advance to the application of these forms in working-drawings for mechanics; in practical perspective and light and shade.
Third, Industrial Drawing teaches the principles of practical design as applied both to the form and to the decoration of all manufactured objects; and so it acquaints the learner with conventionalization and with the most beautiful historical forms, whether of objects, or of their applied decoration.
Fourth, Industrial Drawing develops the taste, the imagination, and the inventive faculties, and in such a way as to benefit every one who has to do with form, either as producer, merchant, or consumer.
Fifth, This is the kind of drawing contemplated by the legislatures of Massachusetts and New York in their provisions for instruction in drawing in public schools.
Sixth, This is the kind of drawing recommended by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for New York.
Seventh, To teach Industrial Drawing is the surest way of developing fine art among the people.
Eighth, This is the kind of drawing which has been introduced into the public schools of the leading cities of the country.
Ninth, This is the kind of drawing recommended by the leading educators of the country.
Tenth, And this is the kind of drawing which is taught only in the course of instruction prepared for public schools by Prof. Walter Smith, State Director of Art Education for Massachusetts.
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