166THE NORMAL ADVANCEManual Training in the Public SchoolsM. L. LAUBACHManual Training is one of the latest subjectsto be added to our curriculum...
first, concentration of thought andto give play to that highest activity of themind,—creation
second, the steady exerciseof the will in continued acts necessary for thecontrol of the physical organism
and, third,prompt response of the physical organism thatit may better execute the mandates of the mind.The development of mere skill is of s...
inthe second the chisel is introduced
then perhaps the turning saw and spoke shave
laterthe gouge, and so on through the course. Eachexercise is intended to introduce the use of anew tool, an old tool in a new way...
it is specialtraining.In the Manual Training instruction, the fieldis so wide that the stage of mechanical habit isnever reached in any of i...