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Then, too. the teacher will have a subject to teach that has a heart 

 in it. It will be a living subject with many channels for original thought 

 and investigation. It leads on from school life into a real life of useful- 

 ness and duty and happiness. 



Great changes have taken place in the last decade in the minds of 

 parents about what they want their children to learn. People now pat- 

 ronize business colleges, industrial schools, kindergartens, cooking 

 schools; and just a little later on, let us hope, they will demand that the 

 fundamental principles, the zvhys, zvJiafs and Jwzi's of agriculture, shall 

 be taught also, for man cannot attain to nor enjoy the higher intellectual, 

 social, and aesthetical life unless the earth be correspondingly fitted to 

 suit the wants of his more refined nature. 



TEACHERS OF NATURE STUDY. 



(By Prof. Whitten of Columbia.) 



Ladies and Gentlemen : A few years ago I made the acquaintance 

 of a young gentlemen who was bent on going to school and getting an 

 education. He finished the high school course but was not satisfied and 

 so went to the State University and went through with his class and all 

 supposed he would go out in the activities of life with his class, but he 

 ■did not see it that way, so he stayed at school and took a degree. Then he 

 decided he would stay and take the degree of Bachelor of Arts and so he 

 did. But he had higher aims so he stayed and took the degree of B. S. 

 Finally, he decided he would take a professional course, so he went on 

 till he had the M. D. to his name. But still he was not satisfied and so 

 went on and had Ph. D. After working very hard in the school for 

 about 12 years he decided he would try teaching for a while. So he be- 

 gan to look about for a school, but couldn't find one to suit him. After 

 trying for some time, he finally settled down to a little country school of 

 a few months at $35 per month. Then when his term was out they didn't 

 Avant him again. Yet this fellow was an educated man. After this he 

 thought that he was not complete, so he went to Germany to finish his 

 education. I ask what is the cause of all this? Why, it is because the 

 poor fellow never learned to apply what he had acquired. He was so 

 busy with storing his mind with facts that he did not have time for any- 

 thing else. He was just full of dry facts and theories and did not know 

 how to apply them. He did not understand the walks of life any better 

 than he did before he stored his mind. He was a book worm. Instead 

 of thinlcing of life and its realities, he kept reading, reading, the facts, 



