Show Asto Practical Education I Industrial Training is Only One Phase of B By T. President of the University of ie importance of industrial as a necessary element is now well As a means of giving ty to our ideas and as a of character hand ling and muscular develop-t in should all forms of Has Led the Movement ie University has been the in this as it still e chief of the combining the trailing hand and the the body the at one and the The theory at this has uniformly been that Jest mental training is always by some form of ac-and that the only training of hand that is worth while is which is based on thought knowledge practice guided om a very early day the has steadily followed method in all the and has sought to make udies truly and in the highest Practical by showing their me upon the world's work the daily life of the Present mechanical shops and normal training school manual arts and domestic ee practical art nature study and school and simlar features in m are all illustrations of the great regard for the practical side which characterizes all the work of the What Is Meant by We need not be into the opposite extreme of believing only that to be a practical education which deals with and material Industrial education is not the only or even the chief kind of education that iH most truly The mere use of hand tools is often quite and the mental insight gained in subjects that do not require the use of is often more more useful in the highest in any community than is mere manual In practical education is by with industrial no means and Not There is a one-sided a wrong conception as what comprises a really practical It is often thought that the education which enables one to use his hands in various ways for his material is the only practical Some people seem to suppose that such forms of industrial education as manual and other constitute the only hand work kind of practical education there kind of education this i and that upon the future welfare of- the people really the on page IMPRACTICAL from page education that is termed of T is truly f Hot the great and really 7 education upon every phase of human The-truly 1 Z most the 3 kind of practical I of that avenue j mt eVery human endeavor in every examples the and in the in the cultural and the advancement of the people as Ma is the training of the t mind and the research work on iQ the These forms of practical education cover the underlying natural and 1 I mural the various and the laws by which all things are The Subjects Most Foremost and above all else in education is the training of the for without a trained mind little can be for the good of humanity and the I preservation and promotion of comes the study of the II character and disposition of the and the of man toward his fellow man- The study of the pure sciences of and goes hand in hand with group just These one to appreciate n fully his trim position in j his relations to the things j and also They enable him to live and let The training of the 1 to this to enable a i graSp the j and questions of j e the most practical r r of The ob-j us attained are they Wd peace and J bring joy to all man-Privilege and por- to which y n to partake of lead him to rf 1 tte ae rights in To i to how to tf to to secure the precious metals from the to to manufacture articles of all and to construct and to do well the many other necessary things this work is-indeed important mid necessary for the good and comfort of to learn to do these things depends necessarily upon the trained mind and upon the research work through which are discovered the underlying principles used in the various arts and Industrial properly so called to distinguish from other kinds of practical although very important and always is really secondary to the education herein denominated The education essential to civilization and to the promotion of the greatest is likely to be lost sight of in this commercial amid the great hurry to get Should this best and truest form of education ever be lost sight of in the whirl wind race for and our whole attention and means he directed toward what is herein called industrial then mental retrogression would he sure to With mental our industrial education and commercial would quickly become less productive and would soon fall far below our present standard of |