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Excerpt from The Silk Arithmetic: A School d104book of the Silk Industry
The public school has at last become aware of its obligation to the industrial features of modern society. Throughout the coun try there are evidences of the awakening. Vocational schools of one sort or another are appearing in rapid succession, and indus trial courses are being introduced into the grades to acquaint the children with the vital and interesting facts of the world's work.
To the children of Paterson, N J., and other cities of that type, nothing is closer or more evident than the silk industry. The great majority of these cities' inhabitants are associated with it in some way - as manufacturer, employee, or dependent upon these. Most of the workers go from the school directly to the factory and are clamped into the routine of mill work without any opportunity to discover the wider aspects of their Work, and usually Without any idea of the special processes in which they are to engage. It is necessary to give these children a well rounded knowledge of the silk industry and, at the same time, some facility in handling the special problems they will meet. This the silk arithmetic does.
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