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Good as manual-training is, it still should lead 

 from the make-believe into something that ar- 

 ticulates directly with the lives of the pupils 

 and the needs of the community. 



The new education. 



All this constitutes the new " industrial edu- 

 cation," an education that uses native objects 

 and affairs as means of training in scholarship, 

 setting the youth right toward life, making 

 him to feel that schooling is as natural as any 

 other part of his life, that he cannot afford to 

 neglect it any more than he can neglect the 

 learning of a business or occupation, that the 

 home and school and daily work are only dif- 

 ferent phases of his normal life, and that 

 common duties may be made worthy of his 

 ideals. It is the active as distinguished from 

 the sit-still method. 



Unfortunately, the term " industrial educa- 

 tion " is ordinarily understood to mean direct 

 training for the trades ; therefore it would be a 

 great gain to a clear understanding of the sub- 

 ject if some other term could be used. The 



