SCHOOLS AND FARMING 



The next step that the school must take 

 is to realize its social responsibility to its 

 community. It should be much more than 

 an educational organism. It must relate 

 itself to the whole life and welfare of the 

 people, and be one of the fountains from 

 which good ideals of service flow. 



Educational values 



All this supposes that the school is in the 

 process of developing into a kind of insti- 

 tution that will serve the living needs of 

 the time, and be even fundamentally differ- 

 ent from the existing system. We have 

 only begun to understand what education 

 means and what it can do for society. If 

 this is true, then we must first reconstruct 

 our ideas of educational values ; and there- 

 fore I pass to a consideration of the old 

 courses and the new. 



An eminent scholar once said to me that 

 he saw no reason why a dairy building 

 should be placed on a university campus, 

 for he could not see that it had any relation 

 to education. This remark called for no 

 justification of education by means of 

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