Raleigh High School - Excelsior Yearbook (Raleigh, IN)

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Manual Training Class

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Fi' iw w K l Page thirty- After a little While he saw the monkey running down the river after the mouse, who was running after the Lucky Stone. They got the Lucky stone for Timothy Titus. Jacko monkey had the stone in his mouth. He took it to Timothy Titus. After that Timothy got all the things he wished. ROSA ROGERS, Grade II. The Primary Room HE primary room has its value in every school. It is one of the most essential rooms. In the primary grades the child begins his school life and it is there that he has his first conception of the use of Word and number. Room One of the Raleign school consists of the first and second grades. This year the 1A class has completed a supplementary reader and they are far advanced in number Work. The second grade has also taken up supplement- eight ary work. Splendid results have been accomplished in second year writing and composition. Several original compositions have been Written and many stories reproduced along with dictation exercises. The entire room has kept a Weather record, filling the blanks of the calendar With a color correspond- ing to the kind of day. Busy work has been a fea- ture in both first and second grades and the children have kept their room beautifully decorated With the products of their hands. ZELDA MAYSE.

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'E' l l Page forty Why Manual Training? HE American interpretation of the purpose of education is to prepare for living. The dominant thing in America is life, life in all of its meanings. We sometimes think of our country as possessing unlimited resources. In a measure this conception is right, yet there is certainly a limit to the resources of any country. The economist teaches that at the present time, a time of commercial and industrial progress. every resource must be utilized to the ex- treme. Every mine, every quarry, every field and orchard, and every manufacturing industry must de- velop the maximum of its output in quality and quantity. Competition is sharper than it has ever been before. The world buys in the best market. This necessitates the highest efficiency in workmen, who are to be instrumental in the development of the industries which are successfully competing in the worldls markets. Repeating the American interpretation of the pur- pose of education Ceducation is preparation for liv- ingj brings to us a problem that is fundamentally important, not only among factory owners and pro- moters of industries in general but to the educators of our country 's future workmen. The problem before 'us is,--What can be done for the per cent of our boys? We are trying to make our answer tangible, in fact, we hope and think we have a solution formulated that, when put into our schools, stands ready to lift the boy onto the plane of efficient workmanship. Educators have, since the beginning of the his- tory of education been devising and redevising, throwing away and thinking out new theories but never have they been able to get around the fact, work. Work is here, has always been and will con- tinue to be, so long as material things are the prin' cipal utilities of human life. Every man must eat, drink, have shelter and warmth. To get these things he will have to enter the fields of industry well equipped to do the work that awaits him. It is not the aim to thoroughly equip but to give a boy a right beginning so that he can quickly and profitably step into his place in the economic world. Manual training does not aim to make carpenters, or blacksmiths of all boys but it has as its aim two things: first, to hep the boy to find himself and his place in the industrial sphereg second, to give him an opportunity to work out into tangible form the con- cepts of mathematics and language. Manual training, as the name implies, is a train- ing of the hands to work with the mind. It simply rounds out and makes a more perfect mental develop- ment. We cannot always locate the mind in the brain but we may think of it as being in every part of our bodies which is capable of being trained for