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der, miner, and michinist, but to every farmer and honsekeeper. 

 The high school shoald continas the iustrnctiou in chemistry and 

 drawinf{, and add the study of perspective, descripHve geometry and 

 mechanical proportion. Of course these high school studies should 

 be electives, alternatives with Latin and Greek perhaps. 



It would also be possible for instruction in on-^ or two trades to 

 be given to a few of the most skillful pupils in every high school. 

 One teacher in the girls' high school of Boston has introduced the 

 study of pliotography, mainly at her one expense. Other trades 

 which might be taught with advantage, are telegraphing, wood- 

 carving, engraving, stenography, dress-making, watch-miiking,ph;ir- 

 macy, designing and painting. I mean of course not artistic but 

 industrial painting; not painting pictures, bat furniture and signs, 

 and I speak particularly of this branch because it might be taught 

 with advantage to the community in most of the village high 

 schools. 



The industrial course in our public schools would then be:Prim- 

 ar}' School, drawing, sewing, and kindergarten lessons; Grammar 

 School, mechanical drawing and chemistry; High School, chemis- 

 try, drawing, perspective, geometry, and some special trade. 



The pupils, who need this teaching most, would not, however, 

 be able to go through the high school course, and rpecial trade 

 schools should be opened to allow them to pass through the whole 

 course in two or three yer.rs after leaving the orimary school. 



The same teachers could carry on the instruction in drawing 

 and other industrial studies in the common schools and also in the 

 trade schools, where the training could be made extremely practi- 

 cal. One of the highest class of trade schools, which might well 

 be imitated in America, is that for the French watchmakers at 

 Besancon. The course is three years; first year mechanical draw- 

 ing and general principles of the trade; the second year adds 

 geometry, designing various parts of the watch and modelling the 

 tools used; the third year adds the study of mechanics and practice 

 in modelling various parts of the watch, mechanical drawing and 

 designing being continued. Among the industrial schools espec- 

 ially v\''orthy of note, are those for carpenters and builders held in 

 the large cities of Germany for four or five months, beginning 

 with the first of November, and giving instructions in ''elements 

 of physics and knowledge of materials, details of the art of build- 



