Miller School of Albemarle - Blue Ridge Blast Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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with a -great number of instructors and it has had in the South a far-reaching influence. Every year this course in the School is getting better and better, and the work that is fitting pupils for life is being, as experience teaches us, better fitted for the demands of the South. The call on the School for teachers and for trained men and women, put it in the lead in the South of the great industrial army that is to guide us from our old ways of not knowing how to do things, into that which will develop our great industrial forces. ?'93Z'Q ' '1'f' 'QS' ora--o.'P--'diatom u.---ff -,- -g - -. V - , - . , A 0 Q 0 0 0 -9g.0gQ , - ,Q ,- C 1 it Q00 03 'gi' g-19- Q:4.1Q.o5.QE 0222522352.4289!222z73g ggqfi f-:-670 P7 ' A ' n . C309 : .oo-9: 03' ,l ,N ,v :Q-gf -Q--Q-4 gn.-b.-, '.,d l.,: I xl V gl QOO- Z9- ' 20f lAf,f' VME? - , . 3fl'1'fJ - xg? sqggi gggg -fi-M -. : Q2 5,353 . - Q .' - ' . 16' -L05-o -'Q-.'g+. ig- ,.-.- - .3 . -.- by -5- fi- at 179'3'.?. Q-..- o. Q- Oo ---: -..-Q Q 0 fy- 9 ,gf - gg,0. ,Q Jap.- 0:0..-.c.s.-,o:..Q-gb:'a-.eoL?4.'a:ui'::Ee-123:23 ggfggg 30 l D , ,M...+....-

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The Position of the Miller School in the Work of Manual Training I-IE Miller School is the pioneer of industrial education in the South. Wfhen her massive machine-shop was built in ISSI, only the Massachusetts Institute in Boston, and the Wforchester Polytechnic Institute Qthen called the Wo1'cliester County Free Institutej were in this field of education' The St. Louis Department of Manual Training, under Dr. VVoodward, was at its begin- ning. The Boston School, with shops half hidden in the ground, was beginning its work that has become to-day so noted and so noble. It, seemed to have grave doubts as to the results in this new and untried field, and with models from Rus- sian schools given the Institute from the great Philadelphia Centennial, it hesitated in the work, and seemed to desire to prevent the making of anything that was of value. In this it succeeded admirably, but the result was untidy shops and pur- poseless work. But since it has lost its fear of doing something, it stands at the head of high and true technical training in Ame-rica. , The VVorchester County Free Institute, under the leadership of that wonder- fully practical and successful teacher,-Mr. M. P. Higgins, began its work along the line of making things that were valuable, and for their value. Notwithstanding this false foundation upon which he builded, such was his great power of organ- izing and training that he produced most excellent results. The Miller School, at the beginning, aimed at a medium between these two, and sought as its chief and really only aim to educate the pupils. But it was thought that the pupils could not be properly educated without seeing results. So things were completed. In this way the pupils soon took in the far-reaching results of such instruction. But it soon became apparent that at Worchester', Bos- ton and the Miller School the work was begun at the wrong end. It was found that this work should begin'at the bottom, that manual training began in the elementary classes. So the School, instead of beginning in the machine-shops, begins now in the most elementary classes and fits the pupils for the higher work. The School now has, perhaps, from beginning to close, in manual training the most complete curriculum to be found in the South, and perhaps in any school in the nation. It has furnished the universities and colleges and industrial schools 29

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