SCHOOLS AND FARMING 



of mere manual dexterity in any subject or 

 study to be a complete educational process. 

 Combined with all industrial work, there 

 should be such a systematizing of subject- 

 matter and such a method of teaching as 

 will bring out the underlying reasons and 

 strongly develop the mental grasp. If the 

 educational or training value of a course in 

 science or in an industry is not equivalent 

 to that of a language or literary course, it 

 must be because it is not so well taught. 



The newer order 



We are given to berating the older educa- 

 tion for not producing better results, but 

 the fault may not have been so much in the 

 subjects that were taught as in the fact that 

 in many cases no subjects were taught well. 

 There should be a strong central backbone 

 to any elementary or secondary course of 

 study, and the same may probably be said 

 of most college courses. Whether this 

 backbone shall be the customary subjects 

 of present courses of study, or whether the 

 school work shall crystallize about other 

 subject-matter, may well be left to the 



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