. Industrial Education Magazine . far as the occupational teaching isconcerned, the armys policy is to trainby application. The soldier is put at asimple task at first and is not advanced tomore difficult tasks until he has masteredit. Thus, classes as such do not exist, fortho the students are grouped as much aspossible into classes of the same sort,each man progresses independently ac-cording to his ability. For a textbook, the student has asmall board handed him when he goes towork. On it is affixed a varnished pagewith the required task laid out, the mate-rials required, simple instruction
. Industrial Education Magazine . far as the occupational teaching isconcerned, the armys policy is to trainby application. The soldier is put at asimple task at first and is not advanced tomore difficult tasks until he has masteredit. Thus, classes as such do not exist, fortho the students are grouped as much aspossible into classes of the same sort,each man progresses independently ac-cording to his ability. For a textbook, the student has asmall board handed him when he goes towork. On it is affixed a varnished pagewith the required task laid out, the mate-rials required, simple instructions as tohow to proceed, and following, pertinentquestions. For instance, in the machin-ist course, the beginner receives a pagelabeled Job 1, Using a flat file. Mate-rials; stock, vise, file. He is first asked,on paper, 1. Can you see between thefile and the piece? After the soldierhas ascertained whether or not he can,he reads, 2. Is the file thicker in themiddle than at the ends? He looks to OCCUPATIONAL TRAINING IN THE ARMY 217. Where Machinists are Trained see and then reads on, 3. What is onereason for this? After he has learned the proper way tohold the file, how to remedy faults inapplying it, and so on, he is given aslightly more advanced task, or job. Hissecond job is to use a hack-saw on mate-rial furnished by the instructor, his thirdto grind a cold-chisel, and if he is suf-ficiently competent, he progresses thrujobs in welding, using a power lathe, drill-press, shaper, planer, milling machine,and grinding machine. On the more ad-vanced jobs, such as the dividing head,he finds appropriate questions, such as,How many turns are necessary to indexfor a gear of 20 teeth? These job sheets are prepared in bookform, with detachable pages, printed inbold-face type. They are illustrated insome cases where it is considered neces-sary. A few weeks ago orders were issuedto prepare such a book of job sheets onassembling and operating tractors. A force of men simply ran a tractor o
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