Mind and Hand; Manual Training, the Chief Factor in Education

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... INDEX. Abstract ideas regarded as of more vital importance than things, 185. Adam, legend of, and the stick, 157. Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., arraigns the schools of Massachusetts for automatism, 201; declares that, in the public schools, children are regarded as automatons, etc., 205. Adler, Prof. Felix, declaration of [in note], that manual training promotes rectitude, 142; unique educational enterprise of, in New York City, 342; extracts from report of, as to purposes of the "model school," 344, 345. Age of force, the, is passing away, 303. Age of science and art, the, has begun, 303. Agricola, noted for the practice of the most austere virtue, 274; after great services, was retired, 274. Agricultural colleges, manual training in twelve, of the State, 341. Agriculture nearly perishes in the Middle Ages--prevalence of famines, 281. Alabama, Agricultural and Mechanical College of, adopts manual trainingi 355. Alcibiades kept not his patriotism when he was being wronged, 255. Alison, his theory of the cause of the decline of Rome, 63. Altruism, stability of government depends upon, 135. America, discovery of, the crowning act of man's emancipation from the gloom of the Dark Ages, 286; gives wings to hope, 287; startles the people of Europe from the deep sleep of a thousand years, 287; a great blow to prevailing dogmatisms, 307; completes the figure of the earth, rendering it susceptible of intelligent study, 307. America, early immigration to, consisted of Puritans and Cavaliers, Germans, Frenchmen, and Irishmen, 306; destined to become the home of an old civilization, 306; the manner in which the colonists of, treated the natives showed the Roman taint of savagery, 306; European social abuses exag- gerated in, 323; the eyes of mankind rest upon, alone...