28 Agriculture and Its Needs 



Some of the city children will go to the 

 country: some of the country children will 

 go to the city. The education of the coun- 

 try child is not to be narrowed down to 

 things rural. His books are not to exclude 

 illustrations from, and all other recogni- 

 tion of, rural life, but neither are they to 

 exclude all else. His primary school is to 

 be able to train him in the fundamentals of 

 an all-around man, who will be free from 

 all exclusiveness, and able to study and do 

 to the best advantage anything that his 

 qualities and his tastes may dispose him to 

 study and to do when the time comes. 



We could not establish exclusive agri- 

 cultural schools of primary grade, even if 

 we were to get wrong-headed and under- 

 take it. All schools require balanced work 

 until the time for specialization comes. 

 Balanced work requires elements that re- 

 late to the country as well as those that 



