THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



improvements are only steps and are not 

 ends in themselves. The final result must 

 be a kind of training institution that differs 

 radically from the present system both in 

 its constitution and its processes. We are 

 coming, as I have said, to a new conception 

 of the function of education. 



3. A SCHOOL MAN'S OUTLOOK TO THE RURAL 

 SCHOOL 



The following sensible and practical 

 vision of the part that the school should 

 play in the life of the rural community is by 

 Fasset A. Cotton, formerly Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction of Indiana and now 

 President of the State Normal School, La 

 Crosse, Wisconsin : 



"The relation of rural schools to rural 

 life is the greatest educational problem of 

 the present day, and as yet few have real- 

 ized its stupendous importance. Upon its 

 solution depends in large measure the fu- 

 ture welfare and stability of our people, 

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