Wisconsin Journal of Education (Volume 13) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WISCONSIN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION Vol. XIII. FEBRUARY, 1883. No. II. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. Your committee to whom so much of the president's address was referred as related to industrial education beg leave to report. Of the practical measures this Association has been from time to time called upon to consider, none excel in importance the question of Industrial Education. Its relation to the welfare of our commonwealth, commercial, educational and moral, imparts to it a threefold significance, pressing it with irresistible force upon the educational thought of the state. Believing that hitherto our system of education has failed to yield results of commercial value as great as is popularly and constantly demanded; that manual training can be offered not only without detriment to mental progress, but that it will rather prove a material aid to intellectual pursuits; that the mastery of a few fundamental operations only are necessary as a basis of all trades, and these may be taught in connection with mental culture; that the state has a 'right to furnish such instruction; that the scheme finds favor with some of the most progressive educa- cators of our day; your committee earnestly recommend that this Association take such action as shall place itself in sympathy with the advanced thought upon the subject, and bring the merits of manual training clearly before the people of the state. They further recommend that we urge upon the regency of the Univer 1-VoL. XIII, No. S. sity the importance of reorganizing the mechanical department of that institution, giving it a broader scope, by increasing the variety of its shops, and so making its advantages for manual training co-extensive with those of any state in the Union; that to this end t...