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Rural School Leaflet. 



ADVICE TO TEACHERS 



Milton Pratt Jones 



Editor's note. — The following suggestions are given for the benefit of 

 teachers who would like to knoiv how to make a beginning in agricultural 

 teaching. 



'OR the teachers in our Rural Schools who 

 believe in boys and girls, in the dignity of 

 labor, in the association of the child with 

 the things of the out-of-doors and in the 

 vital relationship between the school and 

 the farm we ofifer the following sugges- 

 tions as aids to the teaching of Nature- 

 Study Agriculture in their schools. 



The teacher should not attempt to do 

 too many things at once. Start work in 

 one or two of the ways suggested and 

 attempt new work as opportunity can be made. The important thing is 

 to keep up the enthusiasm of the children and, in fact, of the older people 

 of the district. With this end in view, new departures along the lines 

 suggested and in other ways can well be made from time to time. If the 

 teacher's heart is in the work, her enthusiasm will be contagious and 

 success will follow. She will find in most communities, many farmers 

 who will lend their support and encouragement. By placing herself in 

 sympathy with the life work and environment of the persons in her 

 district, she will find that she is becoming not only a more efficient 

 teacher of the young but a teacher of the old as well. She may often 

 become the leader in the agricultural and social progress of the com- 

 munity. 



1. Register with the Extension Department of the College of Agri- 

 culture at Cornell University, asking to have your name placed on the 

 mailing list for the Cornell Rural School Leaflet and Home Nature-Stttdy 

 Course. These publications will be sent free; and the bound volume of 

 the Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets will be mailed to teachers in the 

 State on receipt of thirty cents to cover postage and mailing. These 

 will furnish subject-matter and suggestions for your work. 



2. Write to the New York State Educational Department, Albany, 

 for a copy of the Syllabus for Nature-Study and Agriculture in the 

 Primary Schools and a copy of the Syllabus for Agriculture in the Secon- 

 dary Schools. The former may be followed as a guide in the work of 



