THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



line of teachers, that its methods have been 

 well considered and tried by long experi- 

 ence, and that it demands such a habit of 

 concentration and of definite continuing 

 effort as to give it superior training value. 

 Latin is prized for its tense, and the under- 

 standing it gives to the structure of lan- 

 guage and the writing of English; this 

 argument is well taken, although it prob- 

 ably would be difficult if not impossible to 

 prove that the best English writing and 

 speaking have in practice come from a 

 study of Latin, notwithstanding the fact 

 that Latin has been so universally taught. 

 There are those who still hold that in its 

 very essence there inheres in the Latin 

 course an educational quality that does not 

 exist in the sciences and the industrial 

 arts : those who hold this position naturally 

 feel that all concessions made to the sci- 

 ences and the industries weaken by that 

 much the essential intellectual value of a 

 course of study. 



Whether there is in essence a superior 

 training value in the subjects that are 

 specially associated with the narrow Latin 

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