Chapter XXVI: The Manual Element in Education in 1884

The Kindergarten and the Manual-training School one in Principle. --
Russia solved the Problem of Tool Instruction by Laboratory Processes.
-- The Initiatory Step by M. Victor Della-Vos, Director of the
Imperial Technical School of Moscow in 1868. -- Statement of Director
Della-Vos as to the Origin, Progress, and Results of the New System of
Training. -- Its Introduction into all the Technical Schools of
Russia. -- Dr. John D. Runkle, President of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, recommends the Russian System in 1876, and it
is adopted. -- Statement of Dr. Runkle as to how he was led to the
adoption of the Russian System. -- Dr. Woodward, of Washington
University, St. Louis, Mo., establishes the second School in this
Country. -- His Historical Note in the Prospectus of 1882-83. -- First
Class graduated 1883. -- Manual Training in the Agricultural Colleges.
-- In Boston, in New Haven, in Baltimore, in San Francisco, and other
places. -- Manual Training at the Meeting of the National Educational
Association, 1884. -- Kindergarten and Manual-training Exhibits. --
Prof. Felix Adler’s School in New York City -- the most Comprehensive
School in the World. -- The Chicago Manual-training School the first
Independent Institution of the Kind -- its Inception; its
Incorporation; its Opening. Its Director, Dr. Belfield. -- His
Inaugural Address. -- Manual Training in the Public Schools of
Philadelphia. -- Manual Training in twenty-four States. --
Revolutionizing a Texas College. -- Local Option Law in Massachusetts.
-- Department of Domestic Economy in the Iowa Agricultural College. --
Manual Training in Tennessee, in the University of Michigan, in the
National Educational Association, in Ohio. -- The Toledo School for
both Sexes. -- The Importance of the Education of Woman. -- The Slöjd
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