self-active

Updated: April 30, 2025

It works in wood only, with little machinery, and is best developed for children of from eleven to fifteen. It no longer aims to make artisans; but its manipulations are meant to be developmental, to teach both sexes not only to be useful but self-active and self-respecting, and to revere exactness as a form of truthfulness.

G. Stanley Hall - Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene