Excerpt from Elementary Industrial Arts In spite of the fact that industry has ever been a most important factor in our national life, it is only within the past few years that instruction in it has been given an amount of emphasis at all commensurate with social demands. New ideas regarding the aims and purposes of education are to-day bringing about long needed changes in subject matter and in the methods of its presenta tion, while school courses are being reconstructed that they may more effectively meet the demands being made upon them from the outside. 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.