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product of the child's work that we forget the 

 child. 



Too early in the school life do we begin to 

 make pupils mere artists and literators. First 

 the child should be encouraged to express him- 

 self; then he may be taught to draw and to 

 compose. 



If correlation produces these useful results, it 

 should be encouraged. 



What can I do to put our rural schools in 

 touch with their constituency? 



What you can do, as a superintendent, to aid 

 your rural schools to better their conditions, is 

 to enter into a general agitation of the subject , 

 through the local papers, through correspond- 

 ence with the teachers themselves and the school 

 officers, with the granges, and other farmers' 

 societies, village Improvement societies, pastors, 

 and whoever and whatever else there may be 

 that stands for bettering conditions. 



Work of this kind cannot be accomplished in 

 any one way or through any one source. With 

 a determination to alleviate the situation, with 

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