Excerpt from The Argument for Manual Training No phase of the history of civilization is more in teresting than that which deals with the theory and practice of education. In the educational theory of an age we find the summation of its philosophy in the educational practice, an epitome of its activities. The school is a microcosm, and properly studied it. Will furnish us the clue to the proper estimation of the status of every problem that vexed a particular generation. It will not solve those problems, but it will tell us how its contemporaries tried to solve them. The reason for this is that the school is the point of contact between each generation and its successor. It is the only point at which one gene ration meets its successor systematically and with a definite purpose in View. And to the attainment of this purpose - the preparation of the rising generation to take its place in life - it brings all its best energies and all its ripest experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.