THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



Of course, I would not confine the work of 

 the school to the local subjects ; but I would 

 ground the pupil in the concepts of his own 

 place and time. If he is started and di- 

 rected right, he should make a better Latin 

 scholar as well as a better nature scholar ; 

 and it would be folly to try to bend all his 

 energies to farming and to nature-study, 

 or to any other special line. 



School to represent the community 



All this means that the school represents 

 and reflects the life of the community, and 

 works out suggestions for the betterment 

 of the community. In other words, as I 

 have said, the school carries a social as well 

 as an educational responsibility. 



Our ideal of a state university is an in- 

 stitution that really represents the state 

 and helps in working out the problems of 

 the state. It lends its aid officially in tax 

 commissions, railway commissions, public- 

 service commissions, in problems of agri- 

 culture, manufacture, mining, and com- 

 merce. It gives advice in education (which 

 is its particular specialty) and in social, 

 economic, and even religious questions. 

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