Education and Agriculture 



continuation school would be found most suited 

 to English conditions — it would be an all day 

 school open for the 4 or 5 winter months, the 

 pupils doing ordinary labourers' work for the 

 remaining months. These schools ought also 

 to have a farm attached, and in certain districts 

 the farm should be run as an experimental small 

 holding. 



Evening classes, where practical, form a 

 valuable means of continuation instruction, but 

 often they are only classes a little lower in type 

 than the higher standards of the elementary 

 school, and, as such, far from being of practical 

 use they are only a means of wasting public 

 money. 



For the wise development of this secondary 

 agricultural education it is absolutely necessary 

 for every county to have its own Agricultural 

 Organising Instructor. Quite a number of 

 counties already have such an officer, and in 

 Belgium, a country where agricultural instruction 

 is greatly developed, this organiser is looked 

 upon as the most important unit of the system. 

 It is impossible for the ordinary official staff 

 of a local education authority properly to 

 supervise secondary agricultural education with- 

 out such a man. 



The recently passed Development Act ought 

 to prove a great incentive to County Councils 

 to formulate schemes for improving secondary 



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