re: History: Woodworking Classes

Mike hits the nail (sorry). The manual training created by Otto Solomon was called Sloyd, or Slojd. Sloyd eventually became Manual Arts Education, which in turn became Vocational Education. Solomon wrote a number of books, the most popular was a book for Sloyd teachers: The Teacher’s Hand-Book Of Slojd, published in 1891. Sloyd was first taught in the US at what is now the North Bennett Street School in Boston.