Excerpt from Construction Work in Cardboard and Paper: For Grades I to IV Without the Use of Tools; With a Course in Woodwork for the Fifth Grade With the prevalent demand for the introduction of manual training into the elementary school, there is a feeling that some preparatory work should be undertaken leading up from the kindergarten to the fifth or sixth grades. Very much has been done for the children of the upper grades; but little work of a methodical charac ter has been provided for bridging the gap between the kindergarten and these grades. If manual training is educational in the kindergarten and the upper grades, it must likewise be educational in the lower grades of the elementary school, and there is no reason why its continuity, throughout the whole of a child's school course, should be broken. It must be detrimental to the child to stop this training at the age of six years and expect him to undertake a line of work distinct from the ordinary school course, during the last few years of school. If a thorough education is to be afforded the child, the intermediate preparation must be continuous and thorough. In order to do this, I propose introducing a method which may be adapted to _the needs and capacities of the younger children. 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.