Author: Edith Cary Hammond

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Published: 2015-08-06

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781332344826

Excerpt from Industrial Drawing for Girls: Design Principles Applied to Dress What should be the purpose and content of a course in drawing to be used in a trade or vocational school? In order to answer intelligently we must determine the principles which govern the selection of any trade or subject for the curriculum of such a school. This develops two additional queries, namely: What is the mission of the trade school? What is the fundamental purpose of education? Manifestly, purposive education is designed primarily to prepare human beings for life. And life? The only comprehensive answer, so far as the finite mind can answer it, is character development. Therefore character development should be the aim of education. It is evident, however, that one must be able to acquire the means for physical sustenance if he is to have an opportunity for such development. If one is to attain the fullness of life there must be the possibility of self expression in the forms of beauty which appeal to the various senses. The attempt at self realization in such terms is inevitable, because of the operations of the laws of the human mind. We cannot ignore tendencies in this direction, since they are so potent in the evolution of character; for good, if cultivated and controlled; for evil, if they be disregarded or unrestrained. The personal life of man has three basic elements - i.e., the moral, the material or physical, and the cultural. It is impossible to consider man in isolation as a developing creature from any one of these angles, for, at the outset, we must account for his existence and his maintenance during a period of helplessness. In an isolated state his moral code would be reduced to the mere necessities of physical well being and his cultural development would become negligible compared with his possibilities in this direction. He is essentially a social being and his nature cannot be developed except through association with his kind. 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.