Vivanco, Sean
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Carpentry is a long-standing profession and up to now, Carpentry is still very important in the present life. This book will teach you how to become a
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skilled carpenter.
It is said that the knowledge required to make a good carpenter fit almost any profession or trade requires the use of tools. The hatch, the saw, and the plane are the three basic carpenter's tools. The value lies in knowing how to use them.
The institution of Manual Training Schools everywhere is but a tardy recognition of the value of systematic training in the use of tools. There is no branch of industry that needs such diversification, to become efficient.
But there is another feature of the utmost importance and value, which is generally overlooked, and on which there is placed too little stress, even in many of the manual training schools. The training of the mind has been systematized to bring into operation the energies of all the brain cells. Manual training to be efficient should, at the same time, be directed into such channels as will most widely stimulate the muscular development of the child, while at the same time cultivating his mind.
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