120 Outlook to Nature 



pupils should not know why and how a 

 man succeeds with his orchard or dairy or 

 factory, as well as to have the cyclopedia in- 

 formation about the names of capes and moun- 

 tains, dates, and the like ; and why should not 

 every good farmer explain his operations to the 

 pupils ? 



Such work, if well done, would vitalize 

 the school and lift it clean out of the ruts 

 of tradition and custom. It would make a 

 wholly new enterprise of the school, render- 

 ing it as broad and significant as the com- 

 munity itself, not an exotic effort for some 

 reason dropped down in the neighborhood. 

 When the public schools begin to touch experi- 

 ence and pursuits in a perfectly frank and 

 natural way, we may hope that persons who 

 have money to give for education will bestow 

 some of it on elementary and country schools, 

 where it will reach the very springs of life. 



Manual- training. 



It will be seen that all this is a much larger 

 idea than customary manual-training alone. 



