. Industrial Education Magazine . hoices and correct judg- any father would be glad to have his ments. We want to foster shop neatness, boy pattern after the teacher. Second, love for work, and promote such organ- he must be a good organizer, and skill- ization as will make better work possible. ful director, for he can do much thru PROJECT TEACHING OF MANUAL TRAIM.\C 61 shop organization to get proper socialaction. Third, he must be a skillfulworkman in order to gain and retain therespect of the boys. Lastly, he must bea student of human behavior. It is notsufficient to sympathize with boys,
. Industrial Education Magazine . hoices and correct judg- any father would be glad to have his ments. We want to foster shop neatness, boy pattern after the teacher. Second, love for work, and promote such organ- he must be a good organizer, and skill- ization as will make better work possible. ful director, for he can do much thru PROJECT TEACHING OF MANUAL TRAIM.\C 61 shop organization to get proper socialaction. Third, he must be a skillfulworkman in order to gain and retain therespect of the boys. Lastly, he must bea student of human behavior. It is notsufficient to sympathize with boys, hemust know boys, and this means a work-ing knowledge of psychology and phil-osophy of education. Summary: Project teaching of manualtraining is the most difficult kind ofteaching, but withall the most fruitful,for it furnishes the opportunity to de-velop those qualities of manhood thatour democratic society most needs today,and it enables one to make most effectiveuse of the laws that govern the develop-ment of all human The Job is Done, and We Did It A SOLUTION OF THE HIGH COST OF LUMBER PROBLEMFOR HIGH SCHOOL CARPENTRY WORK E. E. ERICSONDirector of Manual Training, Okmulgee, Oklahoma AT THE close of the first semester While we were seriously trying last year a group of boys were to organize a course for these students that be promoted from the eighth grade into would add materially to the scope of our high school. It was known previous work that they had covered in the grades to the time of the promotion of these and which would at the same time boys that some of them would apply for limited in expense to our capacity work in manual training. buying materials at that time of the 62 MANUAL TRAINING MAGAZINE vear, a very unexpected solution to the When the beginning of the secondproblem came into our hands. This semester came, the boys had alreadysolution appeared in the form of an offer heard of the plans for the carpentryfrom the Minnetonka Lumber Company course. Ni
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