Excerpt from History of Manual and Industrial Education: 1870 to 1917

This volume covers a well-defined period of development in manual and industrial education. It begins with the analysis of the mechanic arts for teaching purposes and ends with the interruption caused by the World War in Europe and with the passage of the National Vocational Education Act in America. It begins where the earlier volume by the same author, Manual and Industrial Education up to 1870, left off and continues the subject until another vital change has taken place.

In this, as in the earlier volume, an effort has been made to consult the best available sources and select facts that seem to be significant. In the selection, there has been no conscious effort to uphold any particular theory of manual or industrial education. Instead, the aim has been to give facts and the opinions of men of recognized standing. The reader is left free to draw his own conclusions.

However, an effort has been made to present facts in then proper setting and to help the reader to avoid misinterpretations. To assist in this, as a rule, the terminology of the time under consideration has been used: such terms as sloyd, manual training, manual arts, industrial school, industrial arts are used with the meanings generally understood at the place and time under consideration.

In reference to the field covered, it should be stated that no attempt has been made to include the history of manual and industrial work in all countries. The purpose has been to set forth the most significant types of work wherever found, and especially those that have exerted the widest influence.

Concerning the references at the end of each chapter, it should be noticed that only the source references actually used are given. These represent merely a fraction of the sources consulted.

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