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devoting a goodly portion of the time of a school for 

 rural pupils in teaching Latin. In Ohio I found a 

 rural high school with four years of Latin and no agri- 

 culture or home economics. How much better would 

 be the system if there could have been these more inter- 

 esting as well as more valuable studies to put the pupil 

 in closer touch with the things of his or her country 

 home and business? Not a little of this stock- judging 

 and study of enforced evolution may be brought into 

 even the consolidated rural schools. These schools are 

 bound to come in articulation with the agricultural 

 high schools and the whole range of country life ed- 

 ucation will be worked out along the line of technical 

 education for farmers and farm home-makers. 



The great educational pyramid built up for devel- 

 oping city life is turning more and more to the practical 

 in education. More and more are the teachers learning 

 to see, what outsiders first see, that practical matters 

 of nature and of industry may finally be shaped into 

 pedagogical tools as. effective as any during the school 

 period and the edges of which remain sharp after grad- 

 uation. 



Some practical things are being brought into the 

 city graded schools, which -are at the base of the city 

 school pyramid. The city high schools, the middle of 

 this pyramid, are rapidly developing the mechanic arts 

 and other technical subjects of city industry, transpor- 

 tation and commerce. These schools are making rapid 

 progress in arranging the inexpensive yet effective fa- 

 cilities for teaching home economics. The universities, 

 at the apex of this pyramid, which are mainly devoted 

 to preparing men and women for city life, are more and 

 more becoming technological schools for the profession- 

 al and technical vocations of other cities. Their educa- 

 tional machinery is annually becoming more and mow 

 the materials with which the student is to deal in his 

 life work, s And the old-time educators who said, "Ed- 

 ucate the man first and the specialist afterward/' are 

 being laid to rest with their fathers. 



