Excerpt from Manual Training in Education

In the preparation of these pages I have been troubled by abundance of material. Three years ago I wrote a book entitled, The Manual Training School: Its Aims, Methods, and Results, in which I set forth with minuteness of detail and fulness of illustration the manual features of a manual training school. I also discussed quite fully the necessity for their introduction, and their economic and educational value. I had expected to draw largely from that book in preparing a volume for English readers. In this I have been disappointed. During three years the subject has grown astonishingly. It has not only spread into every important city in America, but it has been the subject of earnest discussion in all lands. Friends and foes bearing of manual training has been closely examined. I have found it impossible to ignore the developments of these three years. The interest has centred on new points, and I have been forced to write a book almost entirely new. In it I have brought the discussion down to date. I have reduced the amount of practical details to a minimum, and I have discussed more fully the strictly educational bearings of manual work.

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