Excerpt from Manual Training Magazine, Vol. 14 Now, wherein have present day methods improved upon those of the past? Unquestionably in many different directions. It has long since been recognized that the past dry, skeletal method of analytical drawing was pedagogically incorrect not to say unsatisfying and uninspiring. The child asked for bread and he was given a stone. Lvianual dexterity at all cost was formerly the primary aim. Esthetic insight languished. Nature, the child's birthright, was a stranger in the school room. It was a thing apart, to be enjoyed only out of school hours, providing any time at all could be found for it. If we have done nothing else in our present day work we have conferred a boon upon the child in bringing so much of nature into the school room and basing our study upon nature instead of the abstractions of geometry. 5k We owe it to the children Whose destinies are in a measure in our hands, to the parents who deliver them into our keeping, to the school boards that pay us for our leadership, and' - what we do not sufficiently think about - to the community, that the united efforts of all of us living within its bounds are striving to develop, to see to it that the course in drawing shall meet every demand that the needs of the present day may lay upon it and to purge it of every adventitious exercise that may rob the subject of its high value in producing useful, efficient citizens. 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.