Excerpt from Drawing in Public Schools: The System of Instruction As the result of this state of things, the American laborer in almost every branch of industry finds himself at a great dis advantage with his foreign competitor; while the American consumer is, speaking broadly, Without educated taste in pur chasing industrial products. Our leading educators, observing these facts, and knowing that our future artisans and mechanics as well as the large body of the consumers of their products, have to depend upon our public schools for all the education they receive, have wisely sought to ingraft upon our system of public instruction the study of drawing as the basis of all industrial instruction and art culture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.