Education 



rule do not yet understand what technical 

 instruction and the proper teaching of 

 science do for industry ; yet this is 

 thoroughly understood by other nations. 



Coming to our rural schools, only about 

 25 per cent, of the scholars remain per- 

 manently in the country ; 75 per cent, drift 

 into the towns, or emigrate. In no other 

 country is this disproportion so large. We 

 must remember that all national develop- 

 ment is really based on education. When 

 the Danes decided to develop into a nation 

 of agriculturists, the Government and the 

 people concentrated their attention first of 

 all on education. We must do likewise. 

 The first essential is to have teachers who 

 are qualified to give the right instruction. 

 In the past the training of our teachers has 

 been too academic. We must also see that 

 in the teaching profession there is a fair and 

 full percentage of men and women who have 

 been brought up in the country, and whose 

 attitude towards country life is a right one. 

 More than any other class in the country, 

 teachers have the power to mould the rising 

 ofeneration and to gruide it in this or that 



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