manual training

American  

noun

1. training in the various manual arts and crafts, as woodworking.

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Etymology

Origin of manual training

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

The manual training movement incorporated wood and metal work into typical curricula, and, unlike later models of vocational training, was designed to further liberal arts teaching rather than replace it.

From Slate • Dec. 24, 2018

While a student at the University of Chicago in 1896, where Dewey held sway over the philosophy department, Eby was assigned to teach Dewey-style manual training to a four-year-old lad named Archibald MacLeish.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Sioux City, Iowa, last winter the local Plumbers' Union, WPA carpenters, the High School manual training classes, a local fur dealer and the Junior League all labored together to give Art a fitting home.

From Time Magazine Archive

At St. Paul's in New Hampshire, an enlarged chapel, a new dining hall, gift of late Henry Chalfant, a manual training shop from Mr. John E. Barbour.

From Time Magazine Archive

Industrial efficiency has certainly been much promoted by the tendency, not only of scientific education but of manual training, to substitute knowledge of realities for quarrels about abstractions.

From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Holland, Frederic May