While the obligation of service in some form is not to be evaded, voluntary election, subject only to necessary regulation, is depended on to determine the particular sort of service every man is to render.

As an individual's satisfaction during his term of service depends on his having an occupation to his taste, parents and teachers watch from early years for indications of special aptitudes in children.

A thorough study of the National industrial system, with the history and rudiments of all the great trades, is an essential part of our educational system.

While manual training is not allowed to encroach on the general intellectual culture to which our schools are devoted, it is carried far enough to give our youth, in addition to their theoretical knowledge of the national industries, mechanical and agricultural, a certain familiarity with their tools and methods.

Our schools are constantly visiting our workshops, and often are taken on long excursions to inspect particular industrial enterprises.