THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



struction by the different kinds of subjects. 

 It has not appeared to me that language, 

 literature, and mathematics are any better 

 taught in the schools and colleges than the 

 sciences and some of the industrial arts. 

 It all resolves itself at the last into a ques- 

 tion of the equipment and personality of 

 the teacher; and we all know that few 

 teachers in any subject are as good as we 

 desire them to be. 



Nevertheless, it is right that in any par- 

 ticular institution the presumption should 

 lie with the older subjects, until the new 

 subjects can prove their educational worth 

 by the severest tests. There is much train- 

 ing value in orderliness and consecutive- 

 ness of work, in careful thoroughness, and 

 in the moral discipline that comes from 

 obligatory study. To my mind, the educa- 

 tional values of the different subjects do 

 not lie in the essence of the subject-matter 

 so much as in the way in which they are 

 taught. If different subjects were taught 

 by the same person, the educational value 

 of all of them would probably be about the 

 .same. I should not consider the acquiring 

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