Excerpt from The Educational Value of Manual Training Consisting of an Examination of the Arguments Presented in the Report of the National Council Committee on Pedagogics at Nashville, July, 1889
There is every indication that the interest in the aims, methods and results of manual training is spreading and deepening. Extravagant notions are being laid aside, and correct and reasonable views arc taking their place. Persons who had supposed that there was nothing in it, - that it was only a craze, are finding that there is something in it worthy of consideration and respect. Those wild enthusiasts who claim everything for it are gradually forming a class by themselves quite apart from those who are steadily testing every theory by careful practice.
There is, however, much confusion as to the true scope, meaning and value of manual training. It is my sincere wish to do what I can to give trustworthy information on the subject, to the end that manual training may take its true place in American education. Accordingly, I have gathered here certain reviews and discussions which I hope will be found useful. I do not here present any full discussion of the economic value of manual training, but it must not be inferred that that value is not high. On the contrary, I think its great practical utility would be a sufficient argument for its introduction into certain grades of all schools, were its educational value much less than it is. But its educational value is great as well as its economic, and since I am now concerned in setting forth the former, utility arguments may be left to present themselves.
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