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Teach Boys the Use of Tools

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 2, No. 1.

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Teach Boys the Use of Tools

It is to be regretted that there are not schools to teach boys the initial principles of working hand tools, since this knowledge is essential to the proper understanding of how to use them. Simplicity in the form of an implement by no means implies facility in its use; indeed, it may be said that the more simple the tool, the greater is the skill required to use it properly and with maximum effect. Not every operator excels with pocket knife, axe, or saw; and, with the use of every tool, there is involved the demonstration of a definite principle.