EDITORIAL. 703 



Education, in which the present status of cooperation was described 

 and lines of future endeavor- were pointed out. This was discussed 

 by E. C. Bishop, Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction 

 in Nebraska, who outlined the Nebraska plan of cooperation between 

 the State Department of Education and the State university in pro- 

 moting agricultural education in the public schools. 



The papers presented at this round table and the earnest dis- 

 cussions following each paper indicated that educators realize that 

 the movement for agricultural education, not only in colleges but in 

 secondary and elemental^ schools, is going forward so rapidly that 

 it presents many serious problems to the school authorities in' the 

 several States. One of the most troublesome of these problems is 

 to train a sufficient number of teachers for the work in such a way 

 as to give the j^roper point of view and proper balance to the teach- 

 ing of this new subject. There was also abundant evidence that the 

 great majority of educators have no clear conception of agriculture 

 as a subject of study, nor of its possibilities and limitations in the 

 public schools. 



The two great problems in the agricultural education movement, as 

 pointed out in this journal a year ago, are to define the limitations of 

 the subject for schools of different grades, and to prepare teachers 

 who shall know agriculture and know how to teach it. The first of 

 these problems is being studied by this Department and by the Asso- 

 ciation of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations 

 through its committee on instruction in agricidture ; the second is 

 receiving attention in about 42 per cent of the agricultural colleges 

 and 35 per cent of the State normal schools. These and other like 

 jjroblems are also to be considered by the new Department of Rural 

 and Agricultural Education, which was organized at the close of the 

 round-table conference. 



The training of teachers for industrial work and means of pro- 

 moting legislation giving Federal aid to State normal schools for 

 this purpose was the only important subject considered by the Na- 

 tional Committee on Agricultural Education, which Avas one of the 

 organizations to hold meetings with the Department of Superintend- 

 ence. 



