Sloyd

In Sweden, likewise, the same principles have been introduced chiefly by Herr Otto Salomon, the director of the great sloyd seminarum at Naas. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The skill with which Sweden has reduced domestic art and sloyd [1] to pedagogic form was already well known in this country, but it has excited new interest by its presentation here in one of the most admirably systematized and suggestive exhibits in the collection. ❋ Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission (N/A)

I like mathematics, and sloyd, and a hammer and nails and saw. ❋ Various (N/A)

The sloyd knife, Fig. 84, is a tool likely to be misused in the hands of small children, but when sharp and in strong hands, has many valuable uses. ❋ William Noyes (N/A)

Sometimes we go to the park, but when it storms we are glad to stay in the house and work at sewing or sloyd. ❋ Etta Blaisdell McDonald (N/A)

The regular teachers look upon the fifth and sixth grade sloyd [* sic] which they teach with no great enthusiasm. ❋ John Franklin Bobbitt (N/A)

Why, some of those little chaps in the sloyd room can chisel and plane like carpenters. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)

One of his conclusions is that the so-called technical exercises, gymnastics, manual training, sloyd, and the like, are not, as they are erroneously called, a relaxation from mental overstrain by change in work, but simply a new form of brain fatigue. ❋ Unknown (1910)

United States, unlike in other nations, began as a highly organized technical type of high-school instruction, [22] while the elementary - school sloyd and the household arts for girls came in later. ❋ Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1904)

In 1877 sloyd work was added to the Folk School instruction of Sweden. ❋ Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1904)

In 1886 a teacher was brought to Boston from Sweden to introduce Swedish sloyd, and ❋ Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1904)

At first the old native sloyd occupations were followed, such as carpentering, turning, wood - carving, brush-making, book-binding, and work in copper and iron, but later the industrial element gave way to a well-organized course in educational tool work for boys from twelve to fifteen years of age, after the Finnish plan. ❋ Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1904)

In 1872 the government of Sweden decided to introduce sloyd work into its schools, partly to counteract the bad physical and moral effects of city congestion, and partly to revivify the declining home industries of the people. ❋ Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1904)

This, however, was not the Swedish sloyd, but a type of work especially adapted to secondary-school instruction. ❋ Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1904)

The most serviceable instruction of this sort may be imparted through those industries with which the pupils are somewhat familiar; but, where these are not available, the most important factor within our knowledge is some method of sloyd. ❋ Unknown (1901)

Aside from the mental and physical development which negro pupils may acquire through sloyd and the kindergarten, both boys and girls should be daily exercised in military drills, the need and usefulness of which have long been obvious ❋ Unknown (1901)

The real merits of sloyd have caused its enthusiastic leaders to magnify its scope and claims far beyond their modest bounds; and although its field covers the great transition from childhood to youth, one searches in vain both its literature and practise for the slightest recognition of the new motives and methods that puberty suggests. ❋ G. Stanley Hall (1885)

Home sloyd was installed in an institution of its own for training teachers at Nääs. ❋ G. Stanley Hall (1885)

[Hey man] [I am] going to be in the [sloyd] ❋ KnifeGuy (2022)