Knife Work in the School-Room e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. If manual training is so beneficial and really a necessary part of an education, from a utilitarian stand-point, why not intro duce it in the public schools? Teach the pupils to make things themselves; things which will be useful and which will be sold to admiring friends say the ardent advocates of this new application of an old idea.