Mind and hand: manual training the chief factor in education . the angular boy from the Michigan pinery, for he isdoing a finer piece of work than the other. In the midst of the harmonious confusion caused by theuse of saws, planes, mallets, and chisels, the instructor rapson his desk, and silence is restored; three or four boysstand in a group about the instructors desk, the otherspause and wipe the perspiration from their brows. It isa picture full of interest—twenty-four boys, with flushed,eager faces, lifting their eyes simultaneously to the face ofthe instructor, w^aiting for the hint whi
Mind and hand: manual training the chief factor in education . the angular boy from the Michigan pinery, for he isdoing a finer piece of work than the other. In the midst of the harmonious confusion caused by theuse of saws, planes, mallets, and chisels, the instructor rapson his desk, and silence is restored; three or four boysstand in a group about the instructors desk, the otherspause and wipe the perspiration from their brows. It isa picture full of interest—twenty-four boys, with flushed,eager faces, lifting their eyes simultaneously to the face ofthe instructor, w^aiting for the hint which is to come, andwhich is sure in tliese now active minds to result in aprompt solution of the main problem of the days similar question from several boys shows the instruct-or that the lesson has not been made clear; hence thegeneral explanation which follows the call to order. Sothe work goes on, with now and then an is a student trying to fit a tenon into its mortise;he is nervous and impatient; the instructor observes him,. THE carpenters LABORATORY. 29 foresees a catastrophe, and moves towards his bench. Butit is too late ! The tenon being forced the mortise splits,and the discomforted student makes a wry face. The in-structor approaches with a word of good cheer, but withthe warning aphorism that haste makes waste. Thestudents face flushes, and he chronicles his failure asHuntsman, the inventor of cast-steel, did his, bj buryingthe wreck under a pile of shavings, and commencing, asthe lawyers say, de novo. Thus the lesson proceeds bythe usual laboratory methods employed in teaching thesciences; the class learns the thing to be done by do-ing it. The students are at their best, because the lessonto be learned compels a close union between the threegreat powers of man—observation, reflection, and student seeks aid from another, because such a coursewould be impossible without the knowledge of the wholeclass. A feeling of self-relia
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