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wheat, a cow from a cabbage ; but we seek in fact some- 

 thing far different from this. We would develop in the 

 minds of young people a love for rural scenes and things, 

 gladness in the health and beauty of country life, the 

 nobility and independence of its industries, contentment 

 and joy in the most necessary, most ancient, and uni- 

 versal employment of 'the race. In other words, we 

 seek again a philosophy, an attitude of mind for all our 

 people, at once patriotic, satisfying, and sane in every 

 way. 



Such studies, therefore, shall not interfere with the 

 ordinary cultural studies of our schools. I think I could 

 show an intelligent boy in a few hours how to meet all 

 the needs of a Jersey cow and she is as finicky as the 

 Duchess of Daisydown but, all that the schools can 

 teach, and all that the government can do, and all that 

 life may bring forth, may one day still be inadequate, 

 insufficient wholly, to meet the crying loneliness of that 

 same boy's throbbing, longing heart! 



Most of the educational criticism of to-day is the most 

 superficial sort of pedantry. We are told that we must 

 fit boys and girls for practical work, that the knowledge 

 of to-day is worth all the lore of the past. In California, 

 two years since, one of these fine critics demonstrated 

 that high school students knew more of Roman history 

 than of happenings reported in the journals of San 

 Francisco, and immediately rushed out with the appeal, 

 "Are our American schools set to make Roman citi- 

 zens?" Had he turned his investigation the other way 

 around, he had no doubt discovered that the loafers and 

 worthless idlers of California cities know more of the 



