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BERLIN COURSE EASY WOOD-WORK AN INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL WORK FOR VOUNGER BOYS IN SCHOOL AND HOAE With an Appendix Containing the Course of the Lerlin School-\Workshop in Paper, Cardboard, and Stick Work WITH 260 SKETCHES ON 11 PLATES ISSUED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING MANUAL TRAINING BERLIN SECTION TRANSLATED BY W. G. FIELD, M.A. LONDON O. NEWMANN & CO., 84 NEWMAN STREET, W. 1895 Preface In the formation of courses, the German advocates of Manual Training are guided by two principles: on the one hand, they seek to adapt the work to be done to the physieal strength, intellectua] development, and interests of the child; on the other, they endeavour so to arrange it that there is a clear progression from the easy to the difficult, and from the simple to the composite. The little book before me fills a gap in the conrses based on this system which are already in existence. Practical teachers have long felt the presence of such a gap; it was necessary to find for boys of from eight to ten years of age some form of employment exactly suited to the stage at which they are, some means of quickening and developing the desire of activity, and the formative impulse. The Introduction which follows elucidates this in the light of facts and of history. referring, then, to that Introduetion, in the first place, as President of the chief Berlin Association for Promoting the Manual Training of Boys, I testify that Easy Wood-Work has fully approved its value in the Berlin school-work- shops, and attracts proportionally the greatest number of pupils. It awakens the desire to work and the delight in work ; it trains eye, hand, and form-sense of the boy in a Way adapted to his youthful capaeity, and it proves an excellent bridge to the ore serious and difficult work done at the bench. 2065871