AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



garden with every school. The American Civic 

 Association has organized a department of chil- 

 dren's gardens." (Page 38.) 



"The American Institute of Social Science is 

 conducting a propaganda for the establishment 

 of schools for children of weak and undeveloped 

 constitutions where power of resistance is small, 

 where the buildings shall be surrounded by trees 

 and where gardening shall be a particular feature." 

 (Page 120.)^" Agricultural Education." 



'' Practical ethics are best insured by making 

 every citizen, at least potentially, a producer. 

 For example, a small, well-managed farm school 

 has proved more successful than any other means 

 for reforming boys with criminal tendencies." 

 (Page 126.) 



"The ethical value of producing something 

 cannot be overestimated; in this lies the only road 

 to altruism open to the child, as well as a guaranty 

 of his respect for the products of others." (Page 



125.) 



"Country children have become interested in 

 the science of their future life occupation, and so 

 they have been taught to think for themselves 

 and to respect their calling. Children have been 

 taught through these gardens more about practical 

 ethics than by any other means yet devised, besides 

 learning something of the fundamental occupation 

 of mankind — tilling the earth." (Page 46.) 



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