THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



cies of cooperation in a thousand ways, 

 and, in short, the structure of rural society, 

 constitute a special field of inquiry. For 

 cities many of these questions have been 

 studied with care, and measures of relief 

 have been set on foot when they were 

 found to be needed; but in the country 

 these great human problems are practi- 

 cally untouched. There is as much need of 

 an agricultural application of economic 

 and social studies as there is need of an 

 agricultural application of chemistry; in 

 fact, there is greater need of it, for at the 

 bottom all civilization is but a complex of 

 these human questions. 



Training teachers 



If the public schools must teach persons 

 how to live, the effort will call for a com- 

 plete change in their methods and point of 

 view. New teachers must be trained. We 

 cannot expect any very great progress by 

 merely adding new work to old methods or 

 asking present teachers to take on a new 

 philosophy of service. The whole school 

 system must be redirected and recon- 

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