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nothing else could do, a deeper interest in all 

 life around them." (Page 197.) 



"The best education in rural schools should 

 make the people like rural life and also enable 

 them to make it more profitable. The best way 

 to make any workman like his work is to make 

 him understand it. The school garden is one way 

 of making rural life more popular as well as 

 efficient."- "The Macdonald Movement for Rural 

 Education," page 193. 



Erasmus Schwab, Vienna. Founder of the move- 

 ment, and author of "The School Garden," 

 1855. 

 "A proper school garden may, must and is 

 destined to be the place where children are 

 happiest; it must be the dearest spot in those 

 hours which they do not spend in the schoolroom 

 or occupy at home in work for the school." — 

 "The School Garden," page 22. 



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