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Agricultural education, rightly understood and interpreted intell- 

 igently and sympathetically imparted, and universally diffused will 

 be one of the most effective means to these great ends. 



Fellow-teachers, ponder well the problems and aims and ends of 

 industrial education in all their phrases and bearings. 



Remember that we are, and must ever be, an overwhelmingly indus- 

 trial people, facing industrial problems which can only be intelligently 

 and effectively solved by those who have an industrial education. 

 Remember that, after all, the great work of education is to enable its 

 possessor to live helpfully, hopefully, serenely, and successfully in 

 the immediate environment. 



Bear constantly in mind that the only scfiool of the toiling millions 

 is the public school. Will you not therefore as teachers in these 

 public schools strive to make the education you impart in the highest 

 possible degree helpful to your pupils and patrons ? 



Do not measure your success by the few you induce to enter the 

 high school or college, but rather by the many who, through dropping 

 out of school, have been inspired by your influence to seek and do 

 good, and been have helped by your teaching and training to perform 

 well some necessary, and, hence, some worthy work. 



\_The Educator-Journal. '\ 



