THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



"Your value lies not in wliat you can do, but in what you can get 

 other people to do." 



"Any race betterment to be of permanent value must be a better- 

 ment of the masses." 



^ ' The demonstration work may be regarded as a system of adult 

 education given to the farmer upon his farm by means of object 

 lessons in the soil prepared under his observation and generally by 

 his own hand." 



"The basis of the better rural life is greater earning capacity of 

 the farmer." 



"The common toiler needs an education that leads to easier 

 bread." 



"The world's most important school is the home with the small 

 farm." 



"No nation can be great without thrift." 



"It is impossible to impress upon anyone that there is a dignity 

 in residing upon a farm with impoverished soil, dilapidated buildings, 

 and an environment of ignorance." 



"A great nation is not the outgrowth of a few men of genius, 

 but the superlative worth of a great common people." 



During the decade follov^ing his death many estimates 

 and appreciations of Dr. Knapp's life and work were pub- 

 lished. A leading Southerner spoke of him as ''Teacher, 

 farmer, philosopher and statesman." Some have eulogized 

 him as the " South 's greatest benefactor." Dr. B. T. Galloway, 

 former Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, said : ' ' The effective character of 

 the Demonstration Work has been so fully proved that public 

 opinion is largely crystallizing around it as a method of mass 

 teaching and reform that is certain, if continued, to revo- 

 lutionize agricultural conditions in the United States," and 

 Hon. Walter H. Page, former Editor of the World's Work, and 

 later Ambassador to England, said, "It is the greatest single 

 piece of constructive educational work in this or any age." 



Soon after Dr. Knapp 's death, there was a general move- 



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