Problems of Instruction in the Secondary Sclwol 167 



of the case, n,ore or less duplication of eflfort in the two classes, 

 carried on as they were by different teachers. 

 Relation of ,lu AgHcultnrc Taugh, in the High School to th.t 

 Taught in the Elementary Schools 

 If is a sienificant fact that the states requiring agriculture 



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braska nab l teachers and n some other high 



fQiTiinp- trainine classes tor teacnerb, dina i 



h" oTs. Geor Ja teachers must pass an exan— -n a " " 

 ture for first and second grade certificates. But ^^f^'^'^^'^'f 

 not n,ade mandatory before the teachers were part y p epar d 

 at least to teach the subject. A serious difficulty as y^* 'fiT 

 Uck of 'differentiation between agricultural ■-t-*™ f^^ 

 school -rade and that of elementary grade. Of several summer 

 school some ostensibly train for high-school work som fo 

 normal training schools, others purport to tram only for the 

 "g S Bit so' far as could be.determined there w^m mos 



of these classes no distinction m the Sr-^fj^Z\Zt 

 or complexity of subject matter to correspond with the ait^e 

 ence r he pupils who were finally to receive this mstruct.on. 

 IHs as all of our teachers, high school and elementary, were 



eet their training together in the normal training classes o 

 n fhe olleges The method and subject matter of agricultural 

 "struc rJn must some day become --e definitely ^andard.ed 

 with reference to elementary and high-school grades Jhe Jre 

 ouent Ob ections to the text-books used by the high schools 

 reporting indicate that this faulty standardization is recognized 



-ThTre raTy^t^no agreement as to the age at which agncuUura, 

 instruction should begin in a formal "-"-7'* Pt'J"/'^: 

 child The laws of several states require it to be tau.nt in 

 the seventh and eighth grades. The rural common schools, as 



1 ru e use the same texts that the high schools use when carry- 

 ing on the course for one year or less. If we accept Dewey s 



