Manual High School - Mirror Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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1 NE phase of human living has been developing, S A until today it has become exceedingly complex. l This is the industrial aspect of life-that aspect Y, 4 .fr J which takes the materials provided by nature and of A makes them even more useful. So We have today school buildings, books, furniture, equipment, and tools available for use. Today the Work of making these is largely done by machine. This has been true only for about one hundred sixty years. Previous to this time all such Work was done by hand. The student of this generation comes to school already accustomed to using these industrial products in some fash- ion, but he knows little about the process of making them. He takes these things as a matter of course. Their avail- ability seems obvious to him. He has no basis for judging their value in terms of intrinsic Worth of materials used in their manufacture, nor in terms of human effort put upon the process of manufacture. This lack of knowledge is general and not unexpected. Students are almost without attitudes about these products, judgments of their worth, or appreciations of their quality, yet they are learning to choose and use them. To live Well students need to be taught to become better choosers, better users, and to become possessed of better attitudes toward industry and its products. This can be accomplished to a large degree by the type of study you are here projecting. The outcome will be to make life more livable and happy. E. C. FISHER, Superintendent Twelve

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