136 The State and the Farmer 



in its school life, toward a distinct educational 

 end. 



Special adaptation of the school to the needs 

 of farm laborers is now very much needed. 

 Neither the agricultural college nor the ordi- 

 nary type of rural school can reach this end. 

 Farms are not training farm artisans as the 

 shops are training shop artisans. The shops 

 are amongst our very best schools. The farm- 

 artisan school must be taken into the locality 

 where the artisans are. It is doubtful whether 

 it can be a night school. It may have to be a 

 local winter school taught in a new way as an 

 adult school, until the farms themselves are 

 good enough and well enough organized to be 

 schools to train their own men. The reading- 

 clubs now proceeding from a few colleges of 

 agriculture suggest the beginnings of a new 

 movement for community and home education 

 of this kind. 



Necessity of new point of view. 



Although we are properly proud of our 

 public schools, we should not cease to challenge 



