VI. Objective and Hand-Labor Instruction VII. Industrial Instruction can not remedy the Disad- Method of Industrial Instruction X. School Hand Labor and Choice of a Profession. XI. The Decline of the Teacher's Position PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. As the readers of Herr Seidel's interesting discussion may wish to know something of the writer and of the circumstances that led to the preparation of this little book, we give the following sketch : From his earliest youth, the author was deeply interested in educational questions. He was set to thinking about industrial education by the following statement which he found in the once prohibited, but now famous, work of Karl Marx: "In the education of the future, labor will be combined with gymnastics and instruction, because that is the only method of training symmetrically developed men, and is also a means of increasing the productiveness of the community." Long before the question of industrial education had been revived in Germany by Clauson-Kaas, Seidel had occupied himself with it; and having studied educational science and been a teacher, he believed himself authorized to present the subject from a stand-point other than that from |