Saginaw High School - Aurora Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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THE MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL. In the last few years, the ideas, concerning education, have developed and broadened to a great extent. It is now considered necessary to combine with the academic work, something more as practicable, and much more interesting, namely, manual training. The idea of a Manual Training School, is not to teach trades, but to make education more natural, more thorough, and more practical. Here the creative powers are trained, for, besides the actual work with the hands, the doing leads to facts about the materials worked with, as, for example: the handling of cloth leads on to facts about the manufacture of textiles; cooking leads to questions about the chemical combinations of the foods; and the work in the iron and carpenter shops to the con- struction of tools and machinery. It has been made possible for the children of Saginaw to derive the benefit from this “necessary element in any well planned scheme of education, through the generosity of one of its citizens, Wellington R. Burt. This school, which for so long has been in the minds of all, has now become a reality, and work in it has commenced. At the right end of the first floor is the twelfth grade machine shop. The outfit for this room alone cost five thousand dollars. At one end is a recitation platform, where the seats are arranged in tiers for the pupils and on the floor in front is a large machine for the use of the instructor. There are also individual lathes for each member of the class. Besides lathes, shaper and milling machine, there are others for fitting up iron in any manner. The machines are run by a twenty horse power Westingbouse motor. A tool room opens off from the shop, and here all extra tools are kept. While a class is at work, one boy is stationed here to hand out any tool that may be wanted by the others. This avoids any confusion. 13 m

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MACHINE SHOP.

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THE FORGE ROOM.