to be
found anywhere, without using more time than is ordinarily devoted to the
subject, and with better results, if we will but realize that educative
handwork is not confined to the making of a few books, boxes, mats, or
baskets after a prescribed pattern, however good in themselves these may
be, but is also a means through which we may teach other subject matter.

We not only learn to do by doing, but we come to _know_ through trying to
_do_. And we often learn more through our failures than through our
successes. We defraud the children if we deprive them of this important
factor in their development. Any teacher who is willing to begin with what
she has and _let the children do_ the best they can with it, will find
unexpected resources and greater opportunities at every hand.

Let us not allow ourselves to grow disheartened through vain wishes for
the impossible or for the advantages of some other field, but attack our
own with vigor and determination; for

"The common problem, yours, mine, every one's
Is--not to fancy what were fair in life
Provided it could be--but, finding first
What may be, then find how to make it fair
Up to our means."

REFERENCES

DEWEY--The School and the Child; School and Society; The Child and the
Curriculum.

O'SHEA--Dynamic Factors in Education.

SCOTT--Social Education.

DOPP--The Place of Industries in Elementary Education.

BONE--The Service of the Hand in the School.

SARGENT--Fine and Industrial Arts.

ROW--The Educational Meaning of Manual Arts and Industries.

CHARTERS--Methods of Teaching.

BAGLEY--The Educative Process.

RUSSELL--The School and Industrial Life. Educational Review, Dec. 1909.

SYKES AND BONSER--Industrial Education. Teachers College Record, Sept.
1911.

BENNETT--The Place of Manual Arts in Education. Educational Review, Oct.
1911.

RICHARDS--Handwork in the Primary School. Manual Training Magazine, Oct.
1901.

REFERENCES FOR CLASSROOM USE

Coping Saw Work JOHNSTON

School Drawing DANIELS

Little Folks Handy Book BEARD

World at Work Series DUTTON

Big People and Little People of Other Lands SHAW

How We Are Fed CHAMBERLAIN

How We Are Clothed CHAMBERLAIN

How We Are Sheltered CHAMBERLAIN

Continents and their People CHAMBERLAIN

How the World is Fed CARPENTER

How the World is Clothed CARPENTER

How the World is Housed CARPENTER

Around the World Series TOLMAN

Youth's Companion Series LANE

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