CHAPTER VI 

 EDUCATION FOR THE FARMER 



The two generations living subsequent to the 

 year 1875 are to be witnesses of an era in Ameri- 

 can history that will be known as the age of 

 industrial education. These years are to be the 

 boundaries of a period when the general prin- 

 ciple that every individual shall be properly 

 trained for his or her occupation in life is to 

 receive its practical application. Future genera- 

 tions will doubtless extend marvelously the 

 limits to which the principle can be pushed in 

 its ministrations to human endeavor, but we are 

 in the time when the principle is first to receive 

 general acceptation and is to be regarded as a 

 fundamentally necessary fact of human prog- 

 ress. 



We are already "witnesses of the light." 

 Even within the memory of young men has it 

 come to pass that the old wine skins of the old 

 educational institutions have been filled with 

 the new wine of science and of knowledge and 

 training applied to the industries and businesses 

 of life. 



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