100 PROBLEMS OF VILLAGE LIFE 



This wonderful compendium of botany, 

 zoology and rural economy is to form the 

 intellectual nourishment of the village child 

 up to thirteen ; for " children engaged in 

 book-learning and literary mummery till they 

 are thirteen or fourteen years old " cannot 

 digest it. One can readily understand that 

 if even a fair portion of this agricultural 

 curriculum were mastered there would not be 

 much room left for much " book-learning " 

 of the normal type. " Literary mummery " 

 indeed ! What does the normal education of 

 our village children actually amount to ? 



Here is the time-table of a thoroughly good 

 village school in the Midlands, which may be 

 taken as typical of the normal curriculum 

 provided in a country parish. 



hrs. mins. 



Arithmetic . . . . 3 40 a week 



English 3 40 



History 2 10 



Geography . . . . 2 10 

 Nature Study (including 



Botany) . . . . 2 



Drawing . . 2 20 



Hygiene 30 



Gardening . . . . 2 ,, 



Singing (both notations) 1 30 



Repetition . . . . 1 10 



