EDITORIAL The aims of a liberal education are to broaden the mind, to give a rudi- mentary knowledge of a few subjects, to develop the intellectual powers, and to give general culture. The educational course which accomplishes these aims produces the highest grade of citizens. Without the broadening effect of a liberal course, the specialist must labor under dimculties; for good steel cannot be produced without good iron. The prevailing idea that manual training is narrow and restricting, confined to skill with the fingers, is a superficial one and absolutely groundless. It is commonly supposed that the object of such a course is to produce efhciency in mechanics. This it does, incidentally; but its results are much broader. It is not necessary in preparation for a technical course in college, although it may be superior to the ordinary academic course in this. It does not prepare fully for any trade. Its object is merely to produce better and more efiicient citizens, and its aims are accomplished very effectually. A momentis consideration of the following facts should convince one that manual training is not a specializing course, but, on the contrary, the most liberal of all liberal courses: It has distinct advantages over purely academic courses. We cannot, in a single word, or in a single sentence, give all of these advantages; to give all would take many pages. In the first place, it combines the mental and the physical; that is, it trains the hand to act in conjunction with the mind. As the workman files a casting, the mind guides the hands as they draw the file back and forth. As the blacksmith works, the mind guides one hand as it turns the iron with the tongs, and the other, as it strikes with the hammer. As the machinist works, the mind guides the hands as they turn on switches, throw on clutches, adjust feeds and do numerous other things. In another way the mental and physical are combined. The student makes plans which he must execute. These plans are not wild theories ; they are practical work- ing plans. The world always has a place for the man who can do his thinking and acting together. Next, it gives a rudimentary knowledge of machinery and mechanical training, which must add to the efficiency of citizens. We continually find Page Elam:
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