Education for the disabled in war and industry : Army hospital schools : a demonstration for the education of disabled in industry . nt reading, pattern making, casting, grinding,lathe finishing, planer work and other machine shop processescould be considered as horizontal strata composing the wholecraft of machine shop practice, then a unit course in making aparticular tool might be thought of as a vertical division, cuttingacross all the horizontal process strata. Much the same might besaid of agriculture. The task might be the raising of poultry, orbetter, the raising of a particular brood
Education for the disabled in war and industry : Army hospital schools : a demonstration for the education of disabled in industry . nt reading, pattern making, casting, grinding,lathe finishing, planer work and other machine shop processescould be considered as horizontal strata composing the wholecraft of machine shop practice, then a unit course in making aparticular tool might be thought of as a vertical division, cuttingacross all the horizontal process strata. Much the same might besaid of agriculture. The task might be the raising of poultry, orbetter, the raising of a particular brood of chickens. It would Lessons for the Education of the Disabled in Industry 69 include problems of selection of breeds, hatching, feeding, sani-tation, marketing, etc. This centering of instruction about thetask is not the logical, conventional procedure of the , for motive and interest, for similarity to actual indus-trial conditions, in possibilities for acquiring a sustaining footholdin the industry in the shortest possible time, it presents manifoldadvantages. Moreover, the unit course made it easier to per-. TypesettingFt. McHenry, MarylandInstruction in printing can begin early suade men to undertake adequate courses of preparation. Itspurpose can be stated definitely in terms of a task or job, inlearning time and in earning possibilities. It may be feared that such short, intensive courses of instruc-tion may degenerate into teaching a trick rather than an under-standing of the principles underlying the intelligent performanceof a task. There is danger of this unless the instructor pointsthe way to supplemental reading and study and discusses withthe student the principles underlying the procedure. The dangerof teaching device and routine procedure and turning out menwho can do but cannot fully explain why they do will be no worsethan graduating men who can explain glibly but can accomplish 70 Education for the Disabled in War and Industry little. Moreover
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