Education and Agriculture 



I think the average man in the street would 

 say, " I dunno," but the superior M. I. T. S. 

 would probably make answer as Mr. Bray 

 suggests ! 



And yet in either case one wishes that the 

 teaching of Herbert Spencer upon education 

 had permeated the average mind more deeply ; 

 in my opinion his answer to that question is 

 the true summing up of the aims of education, 

 namely, to train the child to think for himself 

 and think correctly, or, to give a more up-to-date 

 variation to this definition— to make a child do 

 something and do it well. 



Any system of education, worthy of the name, 

 must form character : it is an inseparable and a 

 necessary result. 



Again quoting from Mr. Bray — " A child must 

 acquire regularity of habit during the years he 

 passes at school, for force of habit is the greatest 

 palliative to the drudgery that is the lot of 

 men," but a right habit of thought is the best 

 habit of all, for it is the parent of all other 

 minor habits. The power of thinking for one's 

 self is at the basis of all interest in life, alike 

 for the child as for the grown-up; it is also the 

 greatest incentive to imagination ; and finally, 

 the power of thinking correctly is the most 

 valuable tool of life with which the child can 

 be equipped. 



The development of our education during the 



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