Excerpt from Essentials in the Theory of Framed StructuresThis book, designed primarily for class-room use, contains no new principles. The same fundamental ideas to be found in many other books are here set forth by a treatment so different from the orthodox method that a word of explanation seems justifiable.There is a growing tendency in engineering schools to instruct rather than to educate, to pour in rather than to draw out, to feed the mind with memoranda until it becomes sluggish for lack of exercise in the intellectual realms of the imagination and reason. This tendency is, to a large extent, the result of current text-book and Class-room methods which present mathematical principles in generalities first and particulars last. This order is undesirable for two reasons: First, it is not the sequence most natural for the grasp of the human intellect, for the history of any science will Show that its development has been accomplished by progress from the particular to the general. Second, if generalities are considered first, the princi ple is unfolded to the Class by deriving a formula. Once developed, this formula is memorized, and all subsequent problems are solved by merely making numerical substitutions for the various symbols. Thus, the student gets but a passing glance at the fundamental idea and a meager conception of the principle involved. This statement can be proved Very easily by asking any group of students who can glibly recite.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.