Many ask if this kind of Manual Training can not be taught in an ordinary school-room, and the work done on a common school desk. This, however, is not practical.

A special room on the lower floor or in the basement, if dry, is the best place for the work. The room should be at least thirty feet square and well lighted from opposite sides.

In setting the benches plenty of room should be allowed for passage ways, for the sawing of lumber, and enough between benches so that the pupils need not come in contact with each other while working.

It is very desirable to have black-boards around the room, for drawings explanatory of the construction of plane figures, descriptions of parts of tools, positions of the body while working, etc.

Mention has already been made of the seats arranged in front of the teacher's bench and black-board. This is a very important feature and much good teaching can be done on account of it which could not be done as well in any other way.

The teacher should meet his class here at least once a week to talk over with them the work in general, to lecture on woods, tools, etc., and to explain different exercises with the tools and instruments.

A cabinet should be provided for the teacher's models, and in a side room, fitted with broad shelves, should be placed the finished work of the pupils. In another room there should be lockers for each pupil arranged in sections, each section to contain twenty-four lockers. A convenient size for each locker is twenty-two inches in height, ten inches in width and fourteen inches in depth. One door can serve for three lockers. These should contain the pupil's drawing kit, suit and unfinished work. These lockers are an important feature, for it helps in a great degree to teach neatness and order.