Cooking, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Cooking, Vol. 2<br><br>To all those who, through heart interest or life labor, are engaged in the effort toward orderly instruction in hand labor, based upon sound psychology and rooted in a social necessity - this book is respectfully dedicated.<br><br>In the whole history of human development and adjustment, no condition has ever before existed in which so many men and women have attempted authorship.<br><br>Likewise, the need of authorship, compilation, definite and practical guidance in the highly specialized processes which everywhere touch and articulate with human life was never so great. A militant and world-wide impulse is moving toward a democracy, and a necessity for human efficiency which brooks no hindrance and is impatient of delay.<br><br>Considerate thought and definite aim are the hand-maids of all action among individuals, as well as states. Every life must have its preamble, as well as its constitution and by-laws to be observed in carrying out its use and purpose. Human society, in all its social, moral and economic relations, is being considered more and more as an indissoluble union of indestructible elements. A high estimate is now placed upon the value of the individual. He is becoming more and more an integral factor. He is no longer pattern-minded, nor tribal in thought or habit. Patriotism for his race and fellows is not less, because he places a higher value on self-respect and makes judgment and conscience his guide and chief, instead of a painted warrior or a sceptered king.<br><br>That the chief of all agencies provided for the preparation of future citizens and a homogeneous society - the American Free School - shall not fail of its mission, the life necessities and life labors, as well as the highest and happiest use of each life, must become more and more its specific concern.<br><br>This is manifested through the introduction of hand labor and Vocational instruction to become more and more the basis of educational and teaching processes, and reaches its highest ideal in the well-defined desire for Vocational guidance.<br><br>The publications of the Muncie Normal Institute are the result of collaboration, experiment, elimination and practical trial. They are the fruit of compilation, classification, correlation and standardization, as well as inspired authorship. Their justification is found in their popularity and useful help to all who are doing their share in the schools, and in the vast scheme of the Industrial Educational movement, and assisting to make a school solution for a problem which is of sudden origin, but of tremendous force and incalculable importance.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.