Excerpt from Modelling in Public Schools Among the manual occupations which are of value in training the mind to think definitely in terms of form, and the hands to express readily the ideas of the mind, modelling in plastic material is one of the most effective. A clear understanding of form lies at the foundation of progress in most of the fine and industrial arts. This understanding is gained most surely and quickly when the student shapes form with his own hands. This knowl edge develops power to draw because it gives the sense of construction which must exist if a drawing in two dimensions is to represent an object which exists in three. 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.