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devoted to technical instruction, but they kindled interest 

 in history and like subjects which made the mind active and 

 made a man able to apply intelligence to his own business. 

 He would look round and see where he could be taught. 



A sketch of subjects he had got out for continuation 

 schools included the life of a plant, and a course of elementary 

 physiology of man and animal, ventilation, food values 

 and calories. On the other side weighing, measuring, 

 drawing, taking out contents of stacks, elementary 

 instruction in machinery. 



These are only a few points in an illuminating address 

 which aroused great interest and led to a good discussion. 

 In the course of it Mr. Duncan, the Secretary of the Scottish 

 Farm Workers' Union, said that in Scotland the labourers 

 took great interest in ploughing matches and themselves 

 organised them. Although they had a better system of 

 general education in Scotland than in England, there was 

 a similar difficulty in keeping men on the land. Mr. Dallas 

 quoted Lord Haldane as saying that a teacher at a German 

 technical school taught every subject except that which the 

 student was going in for, and urged that if labourers were 

 paid well and housed well there would, in a few years, be a 

 better type of farm worker. Mr. Patterson, from the 

 fanner's point of view, said that farmers should take a 

 greater interest in the way men did their work. 



It was somewhat curious that at the first meeting of the 

 Club Sir Daniel Hall should refer to the Danish educational 

 system, and at the last meeting (June, 1921) an address by 

 Mr. Nugent Harris should include the following description 

 of it : 



The scheme of education for Agricultural life in Denmark 

 includes : 



(i) Rural Elementary Schools. 

 J2) People's High Schools. 



(3) Agricultural Schools. 



(4) Rural Schools of Household Economics. 



(5) Special Schools for small holders. 



Each would furnish a subject for a separate address. I should, 

 however, like to briefly touch upon the People's High School 

 Movement which has played such an important part in Denmark's 



