Rural Needs 



direction. In the past school teachers felt that 

 agricultural conditions, particularly for the 

 labouring man, were so bad that they could 

 not influence their pupils to go in for a career 

 on the land. Now times are changing, 

 conditions are improving and will continue 

 to improve. A very great responsibility 

 rests with the teachers. They must take a 

 broad view of things and understand what 

 is to the real advantage of the nation and 

 of the Empire, and must use their influence 

 accordingly. When one remembers the 

 splendid devotion of teachers to the cause of 

 education, and the large amount of unpaid 

 work which they do, one can only look on 

 them as patriots in the truest sense. It is 

 indeed a cause for regret that the importance 

 of their work, and of their position, together 

 with their power for good, have not been 

 more widely recognized in the past. 



To pass from the teacher to the question 

 of alterations in our system of education. 

 As the imperative necessity is to increase 

 our agricultural population, we must now 

 approach the question from another point 

 of view; to wit, how to alter our system 



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