Correlated Courses in Woodwork & Mechanical Drawing

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Preface
The author wishes to state that the basis of the following courses rests more upon the art or practice of teaching
manual training than upon the theory. It is the result of carefully prepared plans executed under public school 
conditions by the author himself, covering a period of some nine years of experimentation. Wherever plans, or 
theory, were found producing results which common sense indicated plainly were not for the pupils' highest good, 
practical expediency supplanted theory.

If manual training practice in the two upper grammar grades has merited criticism it has been because school men 
have not taken its subject matter seriously enough.

It is too much to hope that results can be achieved that are truly educative, when a shop, however well equipped, is
turned over to a teacher but slightly experienced in, and appreciative of, the "finer points" of the subject matter to 
be dealt with. Loose and unorganized efforts in any line of work cannot become educative, it matters not what fine
spun theories 'may be offered as proof to the contrary. Indeed, much positive injury may be done.

If the present demand for vocational training teaches manual training anything, it is that the subject matter of 
manual training must receive more serious attention. The aims of manual training and vocational training, in one 
sense, are not so very different; both seek, or should, to assist the boy to become a "thinking doer." The 
distinction is mainly a matter of "direction" and of allotment of time, with possibly a slight difference in the placing of 
the emphasis on one or the other of the words "thinking doer."

We do not mean to imply that manual training and vocational training are the same, but we do mean to say that the
educative value of any shop training, whether given from the point of view of general culture or of special 
preparation for life's work, is evidenced in the attitude which pupils are allowed to assume toward their work. 
Incorrect and slovenly habits of thinking and doing have no more place in manual training than in vocational 
training. Organization of subject matter is as essential in manual training as in any other line of endeavor. Among 
other things, it is the author's hope that the book may offer some suggestions that will help to bring about a better 
understanding of the relation of the high school and grade school manual training. The arrangement and division 
of the subject matter and the grouping of the problems represent one method of attack.

The employment of skilled instructors in both grade and high school and the making of the work of the upper 
grammar grades serious mechanically rather than merely "expressional" will wait in many communities upon the 
initiative of the school authorities.

Normal school students will find the outline representative of a manual training practice that is being carried on in 
some schools that are reputed to be progressive.

Finally, it is expected that the book will prove helpful to young instructors in their first year of teaching, assisting 
them over many of the petty details which spell success or failure in varying degree, which otherwise would not be
foreseen.
IRA S. GRIFFITH
Oak Park, 111., June, 1912.

Contents

PART I ORGANIZATION 
CHAPTER I FOREWORD AIMS 
CHAPTER II CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF TOOL OPERATIONS, for Grades 7, 8, 9, 10 ; Discussion 
CHAPTER III CLASSIFICATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF ELEMENTS OF MECHANICAL DRAWING, for Grades 7, 
8, 9; Discussion 
CHAPTER IV SHOP ORGANIZATION 
	Location of Shops; Division and Allotment of Time; Informational and Related Matter Pertaining to
Woodwork and Mechanical Drawing; Structural and Decorative Design ; Shop Excursions ; Stock Bills ; Estimating
Cost of Material; Standardizing Materials and Tools; Records, Forms of Reports, Grading Work; Shop Conduct; 
The Lesson; Maintenance 
CHAPTER V EQUIPMENT 
	Size of Classes; Lockers; Bench and Tool Equipment for Grade Center; Individual Tools; Equipment for
Mechanical Drawing, Grade Center; High School Joinery Shop; High School Bench and Tool Equipment 

PART II LESSON OUTLINES 
CHAPTER VI LESSON OUTLINES FOR GRADE VII 
CHAPTER VII LESSON OUTLINES FOR GRADE VIII 
CHAPTER VIII LESSON OUTINES FOR GRADE IX 

PART III WORKING DRAWINGS 
CHAPTER IX DRAWINGS OF PROJECTS, for use in Grades VII and VIII.
	Group I Squaring up stock surfaced on two sides to thickness.
	Group II Squaring up stock surfaced on two sides, continued.
	Group III Squaring up Rough Stock. 
	Group IV Working Curves.
	Group V Duplicate Parts. 
	Group VI Design. 
	Group VII Groove Joints Applications. 
	Group VIII Cross-lap Joints Applications
CHAPTER X DRAWINGS OF PROJECTS, for use in High Schools. 
	Group IX Mortise-and-tenon Joints, Miter Joint, Glue Joint, Modeling Exercise Applications. 
	Group X Dovetail Joints, Rabbeted and Grooved Joints Applications

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