106 The State and the Farmer 



such problems are accumulated, the accumu- 

 lation being very likely brought about under 

 their influence or suggestion by the groups 

 or agencies representing localities. 



Coordination of educational matters. 



Now, we can have no system and no sets of 

 rules or methods to impose on posterity. There 

 are too many schemes already. No man can de- 

 termine the details for the future. All he can 

 wisely do is to enunciate principles (if he has 

 the penetration to discover them) and estab- 

 lish a few points of view. Many of our fairest 

 schemes fail because of their very perfectness. 

 It requires no foresight to say, however, that 

 since what we are calling agricultural education 

 is fundamental and not class education, and 

 since there is a bureau of education of the 

 national government, the coordinating of agri- 

 cultural education should lie with that bureau. 

 Agricultural education is in need of measuring 

 and coordinating with education in general. 

 If this function should not lie with such bureau, 

 it will be because that bureau is incompetent 



