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given to any other important building. In 

 many a country school the only playground is 

 the public highway, and sometimes that is unfit 

 for even highway uses at many times of the 

 year. 



A site that is not good enough for a country 

 home is surely not good enough for a good coun- 

 try school, and the school ground should be at 

 least as large as the home ground. I should put 

 one acre of land as the lowest limit for a country 

 school. This ground should be the park for the 

 neighborhood, with an attractively planted col- 

 lection of trees and shrubs, and this collection 

 should be more useful to the school than is 

 the mere apparatus to be used indoors. It is 

 amazing how we have deprived our children 

 of room, even when there is room to spare, 

 and how completely we have committed our- 

 selves to the idea that schooling is an affair of 

 the inside of a building. 



The school-garden. 



This brings me to the school-garden, to an 

 outdoor area where the children may work 



