Show Sf STANDARDIZING MANUAL TRAINING IS EXPLAINED Tho Thu following Is 18 part of or an nu address delivered tho the Utah Educational association at Us Its recent convention Manual training teachers and superintendents super super- throughout hout tho tiro mate have o rondo multo numerous requests that tho tiro ad- ad dross ho bo printed and und it Is 19 reproduced hero By Milton Clauser Supervisor of Manual Training Salt Lake City Public Schools Some years ago this subject Tho Standardization of Manual 1 Training would ha have called up tho the picture of or ofa orn I a n row of abstract Joints I Goo Geography offers an excellent field of or study In tho the problem of or Industry until and commerce and Dud can cun develop an nn Intelligent attitude to toward lion tion In the tho stud study of oC history tho the child may acquire an Intelligent understand understand- understanding ing of tho the recent day vocations by being able to trace tho rho evolution of oC industry commerce o and oc occupations In general Space does not allo allow further illustrations illus but from tho tiro above obo it Is la easily scout scon how necessary Y and Important Im tar- nt It Il Is for tor every very teacher to avail vall herself of or vocational information and ho bo ablo to so apply It In tho tiro schoolroom vitalizing and motivating every subject so 80 that hat each child under her care coro will bo be hotter bolter equipped I to mako make a n wise WIRO and Intelligent selection selection tion Hon of or his lire life vocation Webster's Websters dictionary quotes Burke A lOA disposition to preserve and an un abil ability Ily ity to 0 Improve taken together would ho lie my toy standard of or a statesman In like manner 1 I would say a n worthy standard of manual training should ho bo boa hoo a o disposition to preserve o tho rho good that others hn have havo worked out the tho ability abil abil- ability It ity to Improve o tho the things found wanting wanting want want- ing and the lice Involved willingness to recognize such a n criterion Tho Tina nh abstract Joint system wn was wag a avery avery very ery effective Wl way of or teaching In a i allm limited ter time a variety of or fundamental tool processes There Thero aro arc a n very crt few of oC bR basic lr exercises that perhaps con can bo ho better botter taught by this method than b by nn any other In the tiro grades the Uie abstract joint system was replaced at nt a i or very vary early unto date h by n a hyphenated Swedish Amer ican len system known an nM tho tem lean fell into disrepute rather because because be be- cause causo strain ran out than because of or any Inherent weakness The Tho sup ply of oC trained teachers was not I equal to the tho domain The rhe original body hody of or men mon and I women sent out ont from Crom those schools mostly to normal schools were well prepared But Hut the adulteration and di dilution of oC tho rho spirit that camo came with tho tiro second and third generations wan waa Its Us undoing The teachers failed to adapt It to American lifo and conditions As An a protest against the tho weakness of or both tho tine abstract Joint 8 system and tho the system a n wave wac of or reform swept over oyer tho the country which lame came cameto to be bo known an as tho the individual Inilla tivo tl n system Tho Tito Individual initiative system was a 1 protest against tho the old order or of things not only in the tho manual training courses but also In the lire academic courses It might bo ho called tho trio morning star of or a now new educational evolution In places where this in- in In Individual initiative vo ve was kept within bounds and supported h by progressive tool work correlated with mechanical drawing and design there resulted the tho best beat manual training this country country coun cOlin tr try has lias seen While this s movement brought as great a n good as any of oC tho the W waves cs that havo have swept tho UlO country country country coun coun- try under It I have also seen Been some of tho the most abominable manual training train train- lug ing I 1 havo over seen scon come como across This was tho the beginning of extremes About this time limo correlation received an inning Hero fete was a n splendid and most helpful idea But Hut instead of oC correlating correlating cor cor- relating tho tiro handwork with tho tine related related re re- subjects of oC design mechanical drawing freehand hand rough sketches and arithmetic It came camo to mean that manual training should bo be correlated with every subject In the curriculum and a fl number out of oC it but no subject subject sub sub- was correlated with manual training To such Buch an extent was tuns this true truo In places that correlated manual training deteriorated into an nn advertis advertising ing scheme for Audubon societies ad women's clubs civic improvement associations as and tho the making of or projects for or other departments man many of which bad no educational value whatever I Lot ot me 8 say hero that things made for tor or the tho school under certain conditions condi condl lions are uro tire tho Yer very best manual trainIng train- train lug Ing projects Tho Tiro harm comes In forcing them upon the class In overdoses overdoses over over- doses and at ut inopportune times Umes It Is Isa Isa a R wo waste lo of or a n bo boys boy's and a teachers teacher's time limo to attempt decimal fractions tractions or mortise o and anti tenon Joints before the tho boy is ready rendy or to have the boys boy spend months on decimal fractions or making bookshelves after they have ha ct ceased to be of or educational value Tho The making of or some somo may be bp a most excellent thing thins hut hint wo we should hould not lose Jose sight of or the fact that lint tho tiro better hetter the birdhouse from Crom a n nature standpoint the lie poorer it usually Is from u a manual training bland and ond vice Ice versa eMIR A n fly trap or a n birdhouse may mar be an admirable project for tor certain grades but for a n whole school to make mako them thorn during every ory spring ma may be cont consistent con with nature stud study and und civic lc improvement erm nt but bul it h lt not good manual manual man man- ual training T |