Annual Report of the Board of Education Volume 16 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... as was supposed, could spare the time for it. The instructor of such a school should be a skilful carpenter, intelligent, and capable of expressing himself clearly. At the outset he should inspect the management of one or two similar schools in other cities. Their method requires him at the opening of each lesson in the presence of the boys to execute upon his bench the precise work for the day, which they afterwards imitate upon their several benches under his oversight. The course in the Boston school last year included lessons upon the use of the splitting and cutting-off saws, the different bench planes, the making, testing and use of the mitre box, common and blind dovetailing, mortises and tenons, key tenons, &c. Among many useful things made were small cabinets with drawers, large tool-chests, dovetailed and glued together, with beaded trimming and paneled cover, small tables with drawers and square tapering legs, &c. The aim is not to make salable articles, but judging from the specimens seen, many boys early display the power to turn out surprisingly fine work.--G. A. Littlefield, Sujierintendent. Providence.--Educated Citizens Public Capital.--There is no addition to the capital value of a community equal to educated citizens, and in direct proportion to the spread of trained intelligence amongst the inhabitants of any city, comes a wane of crime and dissipation.--Committee. Industrial Education, Sewing.--The first lessons in sewing were given in our schools in 186(5. The time of one teacher was devoted entirely to one school. This school was abolished in 1875, and in the autumn two teachers were commissioned to carry on the work of sewing in a more thorough manner. For this purpose the intermediate schools were divided into two districts...