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(1904) [MARC] Author: Otto Salomon - Tema: Woodworking
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commenced its work in the early days of February
of the year mentioned, with 16 pupils. Two years
later a similar educational institution was opened for girls.

The Nääs Sloyd-school for boys had, at first, to labor
in what was almost unbroken ground; both as regards
the aim of the instruction and its means. It is therefore
self-evident that during the first few years it was
necessary to confine the attempts made to mere gropings
after right methods. It is seldom in this world that a
Minerva springs fully grown and fully armed from the
brain of Jupiter. But certain it is, however, that by
degrees the fundamental principles of the work assumed
a more definite form, and that these groping attempts
became a well planned and organized process. The
seeds, the beginnings, of what is now called the
Nääs-system and the Nääs-method, have indisputably existed
from a comparatively early period, though several years
were necessary ere they reached their present development.
We shall therefore give some further account
of them in the following pages.

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As we have previously mentioned, the sloyd-instruction
movement
on its first appearance was one having
political-economical ends as its chief aim. But it was
not to remain so long. For, almost at the same time
that those who were striving for the revival of sloyd
came to see that it was the child in its schoolage that
they should endeavor to influence, the friends of an
improved system of popular education began to have
their eyes opened to the fact that sloyd was an educational
means of the greatest value, well worth incorporating
with the theoretical and practical subjects of instruction
already adopted. The desire of the friends of sloyd

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