Book Reviews and Notes : MAXUAL TRAINING IN EDUCATION. By C. M. WOODWARD, Ph. D., Director of the St. Louis Manual Training School. The Contemporary Science Series. New York : Scribner & Welford, 1890
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Book Reviews and NotesMAXUAL TRAINING IN EDUCATION. By C. M. WOODWARD, Ph. D., Director of the St. Louis Manual Training School. The Contemporary Science Series. New York : Scribner & Welford, 1890 SAGE Publications, Inc.1891DOI: 10.1177/000271629100100422 C. HanfordHenderson Philadelphia PROF. WOODWARD'S name is so intimately associated with the development of manual training in America that he naturally stands as the representative of that system of education and as its authorized spokesman. He has given, we believe, more attention to the subject than any educator among us. The literature of manual training is a growing one, but unfortunately many of its contributors have been ill qualified for their task. There has been much curious theorizing about the subject, and still worse, much grave misrepresentation. Under these circumstances, it is a pleasure to have the topic treated by one who knows what a manual training school is, and who can see far enough under the chips and shavings to detect the essential principles. The present volume is in many respects an improvement upon the one issued somewhat more than three years ago. It is less explicit in describing the actual work of the school, but as a general exposition it