If the class-room already is supplied with common work benches they will do for the purpose, but if not, then I would prefer the following arrangement:

From common timber 1 1/2 inches thick and 16 inches wide are made out pieces of 72 inches length. From each piece are cut out two semicircles 16 inches in diameter, with a regular distance between each. These timber pieces are fixed horizontally upon blocks of the same width. The blocks are fixed to the floor in such a way that the benches are accessible from both sides. Some of the benches should be of the height of 32 inches, others of 27.

Between the semicircles are bored larger and smaller holes to hold the tools. These holes should however not occupy more than half of the width of the bench, as the front part is needed for the work. And the back part of the benches is lined with thinner boards.

These work benches are used for the vertical work that the pupils have to execute, and also for some of the horizontal movements. But for several kinds of horizontal work, such as planing and filing edges, etc., the above described benches can not be used, and a different kind is to be made for that purpose by putting up the timber pieces in a perpendicular position upon blocks, which are fixed to the floor. The upper edge of these boards should be 30 inches from the floor and some of them 27 inches, corresponding with the horizontal benches.

By small iron bench clamps the work is fastened to these two different kind of benches. As soon as I give the bench clamp into the children's hands, I do not fail to make them to observe that the screw, if turned downward, opens with the sun and closes against the sun, while if turned upward the effect is the opposite one. I then tell them that so is the rule for every screw in the whole world, and after that they never in their future work will have to stop and hesitate which way to turn the screwdriver.

But if these clamps are supplied with the instantaneous grip, as it is most desirable that they should be, then the exercises with the screw will have to be deferred until the pupils are going to learn to screw the saws into the handles.

For the teacher there should be in the Sloyd room a small but high platform, and on that should stand a separate bench, at which the teacher can do all the demonstrations and show the different ways in which the tools should be used.