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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1927. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> For some years I have felt assured that the hand is quite as important as the brain in the education of the child. In 1920 I published Drawing Design and Craft-work with a view to stimulating interest in these subjects as educational factors. The book was perhaps a trifle premature for only recently has a second edition been called for. The present work is the outcome of a number of articles contributed to the Times Educational Supplement. In 1925 the editor requested me to write and illustrate a series of articles for that important periodical. I undertook the task with alacrity realizing how influential was that organ in the teaching pro-fession. The following year I was asked to contribute a further series from which I concluded that the previous set had not been altogether unsuccessful. A number of enquiries from various places at home and abroad as to whether the articles were to be published in book form induced me to amplify them into the present volume. I have delved into many books have “ran-sacked the ages and spoiled the climes” in search of material. The only books which I could discover dealing with the subject as here treated hailed from America. As far as I am aware this is the first English book to be published which treats of the Industrial Arts as a basis of education. Yet it is a form of educa tion or a method of approach which is bound to be exploited to a far greater extent in the future than has been the case in the past. Although there is no reason to believe that education in England taken as a whole is leas efficient than it is in other countries there are reasons for thinking that in certain of the newer aspects of education she has shown. (SP)