Abstract:
The inclusion of a component of productive work In the schooling process is a sound pedagogical concept Manual activities should find a place In the curriculum not because the pupils or some of them will earn living by manual labour but because satisfaction of the desire to make or create is necessary for balanced development It is often the key to a boy's serenity II [Wood and Abbot report 1937]. Psychologists are of the opinion that productive manual work IS extremely desirable because it relieves the child from the tyranny of purely academe and theoretical instructions against which its active nature is always making a healthy protest It balances the Intellectual and practical elements of experience and may be made an Instrument of developing the body and the mind In an Integrated fashion.
