Excerpt from Daily Lesson Plan Book: For Vocational Instructors

Not many years ago the term culture as applied to education, was associated only with the fine arts and with the classics - the fair humanities. No one thought of training in home economics, the manual arts, and applied agriculture as contributing to the cultural side of life. These subjects were considered beneath the dignity of the old-time college professor.

But the times have changed. We are now beginning to realize that the true expression of culture consists in applying art as well as in appreciating it. And so the vocational teacher has invaded the schools and is teaching our boys and girls to make beautiful and useful things with their hands; to study and understand the practical applications of the laws of nature: our girls to apply and appreciate art in the cooking and serving of a meal, in the design ing and making of a garment, and in the furnishing and decorating of homes; our boys in designing and making artistic and useful tools and furniture, in building convenient, comfortable and sanitary houses, or, peradventure it may be in making two ears of corn grow where only one grew before. In other words, our best schools are now in part at least vocational in their aim, teaching art not so much for art's sake as for life's sake, and giving to the youth of the country real culture where formerly the schools gave only some thing they called culture. We now regard as the greatest benefactor of the human race, not the one who bears our burdens and does our work for us, but rather the one who teaches us to bear our own burdens and to do our fair share of the world's work. The vocational teacher, if he be a real teacher, holds in his hand the opportunity of performing a great national service - of making himself or herself a real benefactor, not only of this generation but of the generations yet to come.

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