CHAPTER III 



Good roads and progress. All over the country 

 there is agitation to arouse the people to the benefits 

 that follow the making of good roads. But adults 

 have fixed habits, and even when mentally convinced, 

 it, is practically impossible to move them to action. 

 Let the children be taught on the garden path and 

 the idea fixed there will bear widespread fruit. 



To-day the child plays in the garden. To-morrow 

 it works as an adult. The direction given to its play 

 to-day will decide how it will act in its work to- 

 morrow. 



Bring the subject suddenly to a roomful of adults 

 and it seems too big and too far removed from them. 

 It seems so complex and it is always apparently some- 

 body else's business. But bring it to the child in the 

 Garden, where he is to make his path, beside his own 

 little farm, and the problem is simple, delightful and 

 worth while. 



It is much easier to push a wheelbarrow along a 

 smooth path free from stones. A loaded wheelbarrow 

 goes easier over a hard path. A path with a raised 

 center lasts longer, and is dryer after rains, than a 

 flat one, or one that is low in the middle. The child 



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