Excerpt from Report of the Committee on the Place of Industries in Public Education to the National Council of Education, July 1910 To The Board of Directors, National Education Association: The undersigned Committee on the Place of Industries in Public Education, appointed at the meeting of the Board of Directors at Los Angeles, Cal., July II, 1907, has the honor to submit the following report. The report proper is preceded by an historical statement as to the organization of the committee by the secretary, an introduction written by the chairman, and by the three following papers: "The Industrial Factor in Social Progress," by Frank T. Carlton, Professor of Economics and History, Albion College, Mich. "The Industrial Factor in Education," by Ernest N. Henderson, Professor of Psychology and Education, Adelphi College, Brooklyn, N. Y. "History of Industrial Education in the United States," by the secretary, Charles R. Richards, Director, Cooper Union, New York, N. Y. At the end of the report is a selected bibliography prepared by Howard D.Brundage and the secretary. Historical Statement At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the National Education Association on July 12, 1907, in Los Angeles, Cal., the following resolutions were communicated to the Board of Directors by Mr. Frank M. Leavitt, president of the Department of Manual Training: Report Of Committee On Resolutions Of The Manual-Training Department Of The National Education Association Now In Session, July II, 1907 Whereas, The accumulative work of the department during the last two years seeking a more rational statement of courses of manual training, seems now to indicate a necessity for some definite work by a special committee. 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.