THE TRAINING OF FAEMERS 



relatively easy to secure from legislatures. 

 These special schools will undoubtedly 

 be of great value, and they ought to lead 

 the way in a new kind of secondary educa- 

 tion ; but at the same time we must not for- 

 get that we have a public-school system 

 that ought to be developed in these very 

 lines, and it would be a pity to cripple this 

 system by diverting attention elsewhere. 

 We ought not to have duplicate systems of 

 education. These special schools, of what- 

 ever plan of organization, should supple- 

 ment the public-school system, providing 

 facilities for such persons as desire to go 

 further than the public school can take 

 them or who desire quickly to acquire a 

 working knowledge of particular parts of 

 farm life. 



In secondary schools 



The special separate schools of agricul- 

 ture cannot meet all the needs of country 

 people for education in terms of their 

 daily lives. A farmer has a right to ask 

 that his son and daughter be given facili- 

 ties for country-life education in his home 

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