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Show 28 the arts and crafts, including draw ing, painting, clay modeling, constructive work in wood, iron, and various other materials; also ·the arts of cooking, sewing, weavir, ete. Anyone ot these handicafts.is often styled embraces training. There are two aims in manual training; one educational which makes the manual constructive activities a means for the devel opment of the child, the other commercial, using the activity tor technical skill, the commercial worth of the product measuring the value of the ativity. Both of these aims have their place in the training of the young, one receiving emphasis at one stage of devel opment, ;,the other at another stage. Educational manual training belongs to the kindergarten and common school, and it aLms to train the motor impulses of the child through a variety of construotive activities closely reated to his every day life. This. rich motor environment appeals to the individual tendencies of' the child and as he advances the process of selection goes on and by the time the pupil completes the grades he knows his strongest capabilitie, and on entering the high school he is pre pared-to emphasize that line of work for Here the commercial which he is bast adapted. side of manual training begins, skill receives special attention and finally the university completes the technical side of his education. chiefly the children alert; it makes intelligent; it is ent·irely a train ing of the intelligence, and there is no get ting off with guess work; it CUltivates the power 0,1: rapid observation; it makes the It makes them more· children from the very first attaoh great im portanoe to exactness; it goes to develop the inventive faculty, it is a relief to the children by. varying the nature of their·sehool work, refreshed and brightened by it, they have a great zest for their book work; it has been found an e-1'ectual check to nervousness; it gives a dull child a chance of getting |
