Mind and hand: manual training the chief factor in education . t the Meetingof the National Educational Association, 1884.—Kindergarten andManual Training Exhibits. — Prof. Felix Adlers School in NewYork City—the most Comprehensive School in the World.—TheChicago Manual Training School the first Independent Institutionof the Kind—its Inception; its Incorporation; its Opening. ItsDirector, Dr. Belfield.—His Inaugural Address.—Manual Trainingin the Public Schools of Philadelphia.—Manual Training in twen-ty four States.—Revolutionizing a Texas College.—Local OptionLaw in Massachusetts.—Department
Mind and hand: manual training the chief factor in education . t the Meetingof the National Educational Association, 1884.—Kindergarten andManual Training Exhibits. — Prof. Felix Adlers School in NewYork City—the most Comprehensive School in the World.—TheChicago Manual Training School the first Independent Institutionof the Kind—its Inception; its Incorporation; its Opening. ItsDirector, Dr. Belfield.—His Inaugural Address.—Manual Trainingin the Public Schools of Philadelphia.—Manual Training in twen-ty four States.—Revolutionizing a Texas College.—Local OptionLaw in Massachusetts.—Department of Domestic Economy in theIowa Agricultural College.—Manual Training in Tennessee, in theUniversity of Michigan, in the National Educational Association,in Ohio.—The Toledo School for both Sexes.—The Importance ofthe Education of Woman.—The Slojd Schools of Europe. The principle of the manual training school exists inthe kindergarten, and for that principle we are indebteddirectly to Froebel, and indirectly to Pestalozzi, Come-. M. VICTOR BELLA-VOS, THE FOUNDEB OF MANUAL TRAINING INRUSSIA. THE MANUAL ELEMENT IN EDUCATION IN 1884. 331 nius, Rousseau, and Bacon. But it was reserved forRussia to solve the problem of tool instruction by thelaboratory process, and make it the foundation of a greatreform in education. The initiatory step was taken in1868 by M. Victor Delia-Yos, Director of the ImperialTechnical School of Moscow. The following statementis extracted from the account given by Director Della-Yos of the exhibit of the Moscow school at Pliiladelphia(Centennial of 1876), and at the Paris Exposition in 1878,as best showing the inception of the new education : In 1868 the school council considered it indispensa-ble, in order to secure the systematical teaching of ele-mentary practical work, as well as for the more conven-ient supervision of the pupils while practically employed,to separate entirely the school workshops from the me-chanical works
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