Education and Agriculture 



in the garden itself." 



" Children must be made so to enjoy the 

 garden work as scarcely to know that they are 

 being given a lesson, and nature study should 

 never be presented to the children as a dry 

 science. They must be made to understand and 

 love Nature." 



" Excursions, when properly and methodically 

 conducted, are most useful in nature study 

 training." 



"In rural schools the teacher should not limit 

 himself to dealing with questions of nature 

 study only during the nature study hour : he 

 should aim at co-relating his work, hygiene, 

 domestic economy, gardening, and nature study 

 being all interdependent. No method of teach- 

 ing nature study is satisfactory which does not 

 teach the child to express clearly in his own 

 language the knowledge he has acquired." 



RURAL EDUCATION 



Reading. — While most of the reading should, 

 no doubt, consist of history, geography, and 

 general literature, lessons should, so far as 

 possible, be based upon the facts of the 

 immediate neighbourhood ; for instance, geo- 

 graphy should commence with the physical 

 features of the district, history with the events 

 associated with some local battlefield, ancient 

 church or castle, and the reading should deal 



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