Education and Agriculture 



extreme Churchmen and by Nonconformists to 

 the great sorrow of all moderate men, who are 

 anxious to see this question settled, so that 

 the necessary development of our educational 

 system may go on unimpeded by questions that 

 are largely outside the sphere of education. 



It is my great fear that the continued fighting 

 over the religious question will in the end make 

 moderate men on both sides, from sheer weari- 

 ness of the contest, acquiesce in secular educa- 

 tion. And nothing could be more disastrous for 

 the future of England than to have the Bible 

 banished from the school. 



All who feel this to be the case should strain 

 every nerve to secure suitable Bible teaching 

 of a given standard throughout the country. 

 Committees could be formed in every district 

 whose business it would be to see that the 

 Bible teaching came up to this given standard, 

 and that no atheist or improperly qualified 

 teacher was permitted to give this instruction. 



Having made these preliminary remarks I will 

 now turn to the question of education itself, 

 and then to education and its bearing on agri- 

 culture. 



The first requisite is a strong public opinion 

 to demand a far higher type of instruction 

 than is now being given. By higher instruction 

 I mean instruction which shall be more manual, 

 and shall have a practical bearing on the pupil's 



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