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with good grounds, and these grounds should 

 grow many or most of the native trees and 

 shrubs of the neighborhood, becoming a little 

 local park and a beauty spot. 



We have talked much about new teachers, 

 but we need schoolhouses about as much as we 

 need new teachers. I suppose they will come 

 together. There is no use of evading the ques- 

 tion of better equipment. We must put more 

 money into our schools if we expect to make 

 them better. Schools are worth about what 

 they cost. We must not only have new pieces 

 of equipment, but a wholly new idea of equip- 

 ment. We are to go back to the beginning 

 and do it all over again and begin naturally 

 and practically. Different kinds of things must 

 be put into schoolhouses from those that we 

 have been accustomed to put there (pp. 226- 

 2 35)- We must put in them products and 

 implements, and make them express the life and 

 enterprises of the neighborhood. We must im- 

 prove not only the school and premises but we 

 need equally to interest the whole district or 

 constituency in the better things. 



