INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 811 



In the first place, the schools must recognize the true nature and 

 place of the industrial instinct : that it is the creative instinct ; one of 

 the profoundest of the human soul, and one of the earliest to manifest 

 itself. The plays in which the child finds his greatest delight are all 

 embryo industries. My little two-year-old, who with his blocks and 

 sticks builds a barn for his rubber camel, is as truly creating as the 

 architect who, with greater skill and kno wedge, constructs a palace. 

 Why should not the joy in producing, which forms so large a part of 

 the child's happiness, be carried forward into the industries of maturer 

 years, deepened and ennobled by a knowledge of industrial relations, 

 by experience of the value of industrial products, and, above all, by 

 the consciousness of duty done in the contribution made to human 

 comfort and well-being ? Give this instinct a proper development, join 

 with it the best human intelligence and the best human benevolence, 

 and you have the ideal man the man perfect as his " Father in heaven 

 is perfect." 



In the second place, the schools must make a wise selection from 

 the accumulated knowledge of the world. They must impart that 

 knowledge which will enable their students intelligently to decide 

 which one of the special heights of industry or art each is best fitted 

 to climb. They must give that knowledge which will reduce to a 

 minimum the difficulties in the way of change from one industry to 

 another, often rendered necessary by the accidents of time and fort- 

 une. 



All classes of citizens must have the knowledge which will form a 

 basis for intelligent sympathy and appreciation among different classes 

 of workers, and necessary to their action at the ballot-box, in order 

 that each may recognize all as honorable and necessary, essential parts 

 of one grand industrial whole. 



In the third place, the public schools must develop general indus- 

 trial power : 



(.) Physical Power. They must take the best physiological 

 knowledge the age affords, and under its guidance develop a body 

 capable of enduring all the strains and fatigues likely to be brought 

 upon it by at least the ordinary exigencies of life. 



{p.) Intellectual Power. They must impart the knowledge 

 which it is their duty to give according to the laws of mental assimi- 

 lation as discovered and interpreted by the best students of mental 

 growth, to the end that mental dyspepsia may be avoided, and that 

 the Best intellectual conditions may exist for the quick and accurate 

 solution of at least the ordinary problems of life. 



(c.) Artistic Power. They must give such a development of 

 the sense of the beautiful as will enable our people, not simply to 

 enjoy the beautiful in the objects about them, but such as will give a 

 finesse and finish x to whatever work they undertake, whether it be the 

 culture of corn, the making of a coat, the building of a house, or the 



