Outlines of Instruction in the Needleworking Trade

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Excerpt from Outlines of Instruction in the Needleworking Trade: For Use in Public Part-Time and Factory Vestibule Schools Education is a four-fold process in preparation for full or complete living. To be adequately prepared requires that the individual shall not be lacking in any one of the four elements necessary. First of all there must be health. Such instruction as will promote physical wellbeing is the foundation. Upon this foundation is laid the ability to earn a livelihood, so the second instructional process is preparation to do one's share of the productive work of the world. Third, and perhaps the largest in point of volume, are the social and civic relationships, the ability to live among one's fellows. Fourth and last is the profitable employment of leisure time. A well rounded education therefore includes the physical, vocational, social-civic, and avocational elements. Each is required, and each should have a controlling purpose within its own field. Physical education is concerned with physique and nothing else. Vocational education is concerned with intelligent skilled production, and that alone. One cannot usurp the place of the others, but each is supreme in its own field. Having all this in mind, this study which has been made of the needle-working trade has the vocational element as its basis. While recognizing the other three, it is not proposed to discuss them nor to include them as factors in this problem. The purpose of this study may be stated as an attempt to provide instructional material for use in schools where girls are anticipating entrance upon or have already entered the needle-working trade. It is designed, moreover, for a local situation, and can only serve suggestively under any other circumstances. The local situation was found at Dubuque, Iowa, where the public part-time school was faced with the problem of giving civic and vocational instruction to girls now working for the H. B. Glover Company, manufacturing an extended line of sleepingwear and overalls. In the factory there is also a training organization for assistance to newly employed girls. Mr. Harvey L. Freeland, State Supervisor of Trade and Industrial Education, suggested the benefit which would come through a survey of the problem along some definite lines, and brought the matter to the attention of those concerned with vocational education at Iowa State College. 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.