Manual And Household Arts PDF Download

Excerpt from Handbook of Domestic Science and Household Arts for Use in Elementary Schools: A Manual for Teachers According to a prevalent theory of education, the child acquaints himself with the various objects of his environment in order to have a basis of choice in his after life as well as to develope his observing faculties. The knowledge which he consciously or unconsciously gains in his early years remains indelible, as do the letters lightly cut in the bark of a young sapling, which may be read even more distinctly in the grown tree. Owing to the rapid changes in environment, - economic, industrial, mechanical, and social, - many a teacher finds herself at a loss in trying to aid her pupils to find their place in a world which is almost as new to her as to them. Where everything is in a more or less plastic condition, firm foothold is not possible, and the already overworked teacher is not able to search out the truth from the multitude of books, to understand the new processes, to keep up with the daily inventions. To the child's endless "Why?" and "How?" she must turn a deaf ear, or she must "work up" the various subjects from newspaper or magazine articles based on encyclopædias, which are admirable epitomes of past and gone history, but most misleading and insufficient as to growing science. This little book is an endeavor on the part of the several experienced teachers to put into a form helpful to others that which they themselves have gathered with much labor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.