Industrial Education A NECESSARY PART OF PUBLIC EDUCATION. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION, BY JOHN S. CLARK. Manual Education A FEATURE IN PUBLIC EDUCATION. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE NATIONAL TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, A PAPER READ BEFORE THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INSTRUCTION, BY JOHN S. CLARK. Manual Education A FEATURE IN PUBLIC EDUCATION. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE NATIONAL TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL Presented at the joint meeting of the National Teachers' Association and the To the American Institute of Instruction: Your committee chosen to investigate the subject of Industrial Education, and to report thereon to your Association, beg to submit the following as their conclusions and recommendations: Your committee are of opinion that there should be incorporated in the present scheme of public education broader provisions than now exist for imparting to our youth the elements of knowledge and skill required in the industrial arts: not alone for the development of those arts, but also as a part of the general system of public education, having for its object training for citizenship through the normal development of individual power. To this end they would recommend: First, The introduction into public schools of proper appliances for the development of the sense-perception of pupils in regard to color, form, proportion, etc., by contact with models and with natural objects. Second, The introduction into grammar schools of simple physical and chemical experiments, for the purpose of acquainting pupils, through original observation, with the elements of chemical and physical science and their common applications in the arts. Third, The teaching of drawing, not as an accomplishment, but as a language for the graphic presentation of the facts of form and of matter; for |