He was behind his mental level in handwork and was not motivated to do his best work; he fitted poorly into social activities.
The handwork of the rapid learners is very superior, contrary to the current superstition that highly intelligent children are "poor with their hands.
The handwork may be used as an illustrative factor connected with geography and nature study, or the making of the circus may be the starting point, and incidentally furnish subject matter in several fields.
The problem of furniture for the school playhouse has been discussed in numerous publications, and nearly every writer on the subject of primary handwork offers suggestions on this topic.
Neither lack of time, scarcity of material, nor lack of training on the part of the teacher is a sufficient excuse for failure to use some handwork in every school.
Handwork takes more time than bookwork, and children evolve plans but slowly.
Handwork projects should be sufficiently simple to allow each worker to see his way through, or at least find his way without waiting for directions at each step.
Nor are the children's essays in handwork limited to these subjects.
The decoration of the classroom will present demands for drawing and handwork activities such as picture frames, draperies, red, white and blue chains, and flag decorations.
Both these processes are described in Handwork in Wood, Chapter III.
In order to neutralize warping as much as possible in broad board structures, it is common to joint the board with the annual rings of each alternate board curving in opposite directions, as shown in Handwork in Wood, Fig.
These matters are considered in Handwork in Wood, Chapter III, on the Seasoning of Wood.
Footnote 2: For the common methods of logging see Handwork in Wood, Chapter I.
The ability to do good handwork rapidly is the prerequisite.
Trade Order Administration A trade school must do its skilled handwork in the fashion of the day and on correct materials, yet the students are too poor to work for themselves.
Trade Orders The handwork in the various departments falls into three grades: 1.
In the blending of handworkand thought in such arts as we propose to deal with, happy careers may be found as far removed from the dreary routine of hack labour as from the terrible uncertainty of academic art.
In the blending of handwork and thought in [p-ix] such arts as we propose to deal with, happy careers may be found as far removed from the dreary routine of hack labour as from the terrible uncertainty of academic art.
We do not class technical training with so-called manual training or handwork of the elementary schools.
Here handwork is combined with industrial art adapted to metal work.
According to Fourier, handwork and machine manufacture were both included in the latter while Owen made the great industry play the most important part, and the steam engine and machinery performed the work of the community.
There's no more handwork to be done; that's the reason he's been holdin' it back.
Where trade schools do not offer such training, there are opportunities for apprentice work for girls] The possibilities for apprentice work with dressmakers or milliners or in other handwork should also be made known.
The proportion of purely mental work and of handwork will vary according to the locality in which the girl finds herself.
The extent to which her handwork is touched by the imaginative instinct of course measures the distance that she may make her way up the ladder of productive work.
As paper-box making is all handwork and paid for by the piece, it is not uncommon for work to go on in the meal hours--'they please themselves.
But the most striking proof of the connection between cheap labour and handwork is given by one investigator who, whilst being taken over certain large printing works was shown women folding one of the illustrated weekly papers.
This trade, then, affords a definite instance of the replacement of women's work by machinery, handwork being now a rare survival.
Constructive and beautiful handwork books are provided for the pupil.
The choice between them will be made on the basis of preference for handwork or textbook work for the children.
Many pleasant experiments are to be made in connecting some of the handwork of the youngest children with their literature.
The Odyssey will be used, however, in schools where there is no handwork and no chance of seeing collections of suitable objects.
The best "embroidery needles" for ordinary crewel handwork are Nos.
At a time when handwork had not been thought of for boys, the beginnings of such work were here introduced for girls.
There was the talk of new Swedish methods, of handwork instruction, and so on.
Brangwen embraced sincerely the idea of handwork in schools.
Now he was going to be Art and Handwork Instructor for the County of Nottingham.
The importance of handwork to them is felt so keenly, that the special-schools time-tables usually show a morning devoted to headwork followed by an afternoon occupied by handwork.
The teacher must be able to help each child along its own path, and must be familiar with the various forms of simple handwork as well as with the more usual school subjects.
Besides the general training coming from handwork and physical exercise, special games are arranged to exercise the different senses.
Their background of knowledge of things and skill acquired through handwork renders the actual processes of learning comparatively simple.
At the same time, allowing the pupils to do handwork whenever there is opportunity for it, is a great aid in holding the child’s attention and interest.
Learning by doing does not, of course, mean the substitution of manual occupations or handwork for text-book studying.
The handwork furnishes another opportunity for drawing and color work, in the making of drawings for patterns.
Professor Meriam takes this fact as sufficient grounds for making handwork a regular part of the curriculum and having it occupy an hour a day, a period which usually seems so short to the pupils that they take their work home.
The value of handwork is strongly emphasized at Fairhope, consistently with the emphasis put on physical growth.
The benefits of handwork on the utilitarian side are just as great.
Saturday mornings, for the purpose of providing games, physical exercises and handworkoccupations for the children of that district.
But from October onwards through the whole winter and up to the end of May, the demand for handworknever slackens.
The attendances at thehandwork classes drop off a little when June begins, and from June to October they are better discontinued in favour of cricket, swimming and outdoor games in general.
You can see that by printing from letters cast in molds the text was more regular than was the handwork done by the priests and monks.
But the photographer is, as I said, marching on and on, and the line of demarcation between handwork and photographic illustrations becomes less marked every day.
As there is no question that "the handwork of the artist" can be seen more clearly through mechanical engraving than through wood engraving, it behoves him to do his best.
But anything in the nature of story periods, games periods, handwork periods, only impedes the variously developing children in their hunger for experiences.
The afternoons are mostly devoted to Games, Stories, Handwork and Singing: this order is not universal, but the general principle holds, of taking the more difficult and formal subjects in the morning.
Whether the end is doing, or whether it is thinking, the two are inextricably connected; in the earlier stages the way to know and feel is very often by action, and here is the basis of the maxim that handwork is a method.
This is what we should mean by saying thathandwork is a method of learning.
In handwork this has come to us through the quest for materials, but it has been a blessing, if now and then in disguise.
Then comes the garden, and only after all these, the rooms and halls for indoors games, handwork and instruction.
The handwork play of the Nursery School is therefore chiefly by means of imitation and experiment, and direct help is usually quite unwelcome to the child under six.
This means light chairs and tables or benches where handwork can be done; low cupboards and lockers so that each child can get at his own things; broad window-sills for plants and flowers and a bookcase for reading and picture books.
