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life is to arouse all the people to the necessity 

 of such education, to co-ordinate the forces that 

 are beginning to operate and to project the work 

 beyond the schools for youth into continuation 

 schools for adults. The schools must represent 

 and express the comnnunity in which they stand, 

 although, of course, they should not be conhned 

 to this community. They should teach health 

 and sanitation even if it is necessary to modify 

 the customary teaching of physiology. The 

 teaching should be visual, direct and applicable. 

 Of course, the whole tendency of the schools 

 will be ethical if they teach the vital subjects 

 truthfully ; but particular care should be taken 

 that they stand for the morals of the pupils 

 and of the communities. 



"The education motive has been taken mtoall 

 kinds of work with the people, directly in their 

 homes and on their farms, and it reaches mature 

 persons as well as youths. Beyond and behind 

 all educational work there must be an aroused 

 intelligent public sentiment ; to make this 

 statement is the most important work immedi- 

 ately before us. The whole country is alive 

 with educational activity. While this activity 

 may all be good, it nevertheless needs to be 

 directed and correlated, and all the agencies 

 should be more or less federated. 



"The arousing of the people must be accom- 

 plished in terms of their daily lives or of their 



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