AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



of the critical discernment of beauty and excel- 

 lence in things, and words, and thoughts, in 

 nature, and in human nature." — " Education for 

 Efficiency," page i8. 



George D. Fuller, University of Chicago. Direc- 

 tor of the first Macdonald school garden in 

 Broome County, Quebec. 



"In some schools there has been a very notice- 

 able change in the attitude of the pupils toward 

 the schoolroom and grounds, and they now take 

 pride in beautiful surroundings and care for them 

 where formerly they sought but to make desola- 

 tion more hideous. 



**As the pupils have planned their plots, have 

 measured and staked them out, planted the seed 

 and cared for the plants, they have become more 

 skilful of hand and more accurate of eye, while 

 working from a definite plan has trained the judg- 

 ment and taught them to foresee the future. All 

 these results would warrant the existence of school 

 gardens, but more noticeable has been the re- 

 sponse to the appeal made to the higher nature of 

 the child." 



"The pupils' attention has been turned to a 

 consideration of the beautiful to the exclusion of 

 many baser thoughts, and the resulting moral 

 culture has found expression in more orderly 

 behavior." — "The School Garden and The Coun- 

 try School," pages 46 and 246. 



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