Woodwork for Secondary Schools a Text-Book for High Schools and Colleges, Prevocational and Elementary Industrial Schools (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Woodwork for Secondary Schools a Text-Book for High Schools and Colleges, Prevocational and Elementary Industrial SchoolsThe aim of this book is to provide in text form the essentials of woodwork as usually taught in secondary schools. Manifestly, in a book of this size no one subject can be treated exhaustively. Nor is such treatment necessary to fulfill the purpose of the book, which is to provide the elements of subject-matter for general experience in various lines of woodwork rather than extended experience in some one line. It is confidently expected that the content will be found sufficiently complete for the purpose intended.Much of the subject-matter, should limitations of time or equipment prevent its use in connection with specific shop experience, may be assigned for reading and study from the purely "informational" point of view. Such assignments, if made so that they shall have some connection with the shopwork, will serve to broaden the pupils "outlook," giving to the specific shop experiences a setting calculated to greatly increase the understanding of their meaning.This text presupposes a knowledge of elementary tool processes, such as are to be found in well organized grade school work, as described in "Essentials of Woodworking," by the same author. However, owing to the lack of any general agreement as to the dividing line between grade school and high school, there will be found included in this text those parts of "Essentials of Woodworking" which observation has shown are frequently not covered in grade schools of good standing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com