Wood-working for Beginners: A Manual for Amateurs
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073WLFPVJ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 371 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Some seem to be written by practical workmen, who, however well fitted to do the work themselves, lack the pedagogical training or the psychological insight necessary to lay out such work with due regard to the mental and physical capacity, experience, and development of youth, or to the amateur's lack of experience in the rudiments of the subject. Others are written by teachers or amateurs who lack the trained mechanic's practical and varied knowledge and experience in serious work. The treatment is neither general nor superficial, but elementary, and no claim is made that it will carry anyone very far in the various subjects; but it aims to be thorough and specific as far as it goes and to teach nothing which will have to be unlearned.Great care (based upon an extended experience with boys and amateurs) has been taken to include only what can be profitably done by an intelligent boy of from ten to eighteen or by the average untrained worker of more mature years. Others (and this last class is, perhaps, the worst of the three) seem to be made by compilers who have apparently been