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Editorial 



Teachers should be thoroughly conversant with the concerted 

 action of the Bureau of Education and the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture to establish agricultural education in the public 

 schools. The editor of the garden niunber of The Nature-Study 

 Review feels space is well devoted to a reprint from the publication 

 — School Life — of the Bureau of Education outlining the work of 

 the United States School Garden Army. Read it carefully; then, 

 woite to Director Frances, Bureau of Education, Washington, 

 D. C, to send you its publications. They are equally valuable to 

 the teacher of school gardening and the home gardener. After 

 you have a clear idea of its meaning organize your school into 

 a unit of this great army of children who are serving their countr>' 

 by producing food; serving by industry and thrift; serving by 

 conservation and at the same time la\'ing up lessons of value for the 

 time when they are the men and the women of the United States. 



A boy who wears the insignia, be it that of a private or an officer 

 has back of him th^ President of the United States, the Secretary 

 of the Interior and the Commissioner of Education. With these 

 high officials vitally interested in the reconstruction of education 

 the children of the future have an outlook for an education that 

 will teach them to live. Quoting Dr. L>Tnan Abbot, "education 

 and life will bs brought together." "I am not so much interested 

 in what boys and girls are doing for the soil," he says, "as I am 

 with what the soil is doing for these boys and girls. Agricultural 

 education is a great unifier. It brings the home and school 

 together, the teacher and parents together; education and life 

 together and what is perhaps best of all fulfills the promise of the 



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