Bulletin (1915) (14598291449) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: bulletin1915kans (find matches)
Title: Bulletin
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Kansas State Manual Training Normal School
Subjects: Kansas State Manual Training Normal School State universities and colleges Teachers colleges Vocational education
Publisher: Pittsburg, Kan. : State Manual Training Normal School
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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soon as the student demonstrateshis ability to work with a reasonable degree of proficiency and dispatchhe is permitted to do work that will enable him to realize in a financialway. Modern methods of shop procedure, time cards, checking systems,etc., are used and the work made as practical as it is possible to make it. The successful men are they who have worked while their neighborsminds were vacant or occupied with passing trivialities, who have beenacting while others have been wrestling with indecision. They are themen who have tried to read all that has been written about their craft;who have learned from the masters and fellow-craftsmen of experience,and profited thereby; who have gone about with their eyes open, notingthe good points of other mens work, and considered how they might doit better. Thus they have carried themselves above mediocrity, and instriving to do things the best they could, have educated themselves in thetruest manner. (13) 14 State Manual Training Normal.
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Woodworking Courses. 15 Course la.—Bench Work. A beginning course which aims primarily to give a training in thetechnical processes as a basis for teaching in the sixth, seventh,eighth and ninth grades. It is not intended to develop meremanual dexterity, but to balance theory and practice. A portionof the time is given to demonstrations and lectures, discussions andreports on methods of teaching and courses of study. Studentsanticipate and solve some of the problems of teaching by preparingand presenting lessons or demonstrating tool processes as theywould be given to a public-school class. Each student is encour-aged to design original models which involve a definite order of re-lated processes, and place them in an established course. Through-out the term, special outside reading is required on such subjectsas tools and tool processes, principles of construction, fastenings—nails, screws, wedges, dowels, and glue—simple wood finishes, careof brushes, etc.Students who have done