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    Practical Mechanics for Boys
    Practical Mechanics for Boys
    Practical Mechanics for Boys
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    Practical Mechanics for Boys

    By James Slough Zerbe

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 1, 2012
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      Practical Mechanics for Boys - James Slough Zerbe

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Practical Mechanics for Boys, by J. S. Zerbe

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      Title: Practical Mechanics for Boys

      Author: J. S. Zerbe

      Release Date: August 11, 2007 [EBook #22298]

      Language: English

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      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      PRACTICAL MECHANICS FOR BOYS

      INTRODUCTORYToC

      The American method of teaching the mechanical arts has some disadvantages, as compared with the apprentice system followed in England, and very largely on the continent.

      It is too often the case that here a boy or a young man begins work in a machine shop, not for the avowed purpose of learning the trade, but simply as a helper, with no other object in view than to get his weekly wages.

      Abroad, the plan is one which, for various reasons, could not be tolerated here. There he is bound for a certain term of years, and with the prime object of teaching him to become an artisan. More often than otherwise he pays for this privilege, and he knows it is incumbent on him to make good right from the start.

      He labors under the disadvantage, however, that he has a certain tenure, and in that course he is not pushed forward from one step to the next on account of any merit of his own. His advancement is fixed by the time he has put in at each part of the work, and thus no note is taken of his individuality.

      Here the boy rises step after step by virtue of his own qualifications, and we recognize that one boy has the capacity to learn faster than another. If he can learn in one year what it requires three in another to acquire, in order to do it as perfectly, it is an injury to the apt workman to be held back and deterred from making his way upwardly.

      It may be urged that the apprentice system instills thoroughness. This may be true; but it also does another thing: It makes the man a mere machine. The true workman is a thinker. He is ever on the alert to find easier, quicker and more efficient means for doing certain work.

      What is called Efficiency in labor methods, can never obtain in an apprenticeship system for this reason. In a certain operation, where twelve motions are required to do a certain thing, and

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