Manual labor school

Manual labor schools were schools in the United States which required students to perform manual labor, usually agricultural or mechanical work. The heyday of manual labor movement was from 1830 to 1845. A number of schools were founded on these principles, including the Maine Wesleyan Seminary in 1825 and the Oneida Institute of Science and Industry in 1826, and a number of existing schools adopted manual labor requirements.

References

• Lull, Herbert Galen. The Manual Labor Movement In the United States. Seattle, Wash., 1914.
• Power, Edward J. "Hand and Head: The Manual Labor School Movement", A Legacy of Learning: A History of Western Education. Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press, 1991.