Education 



in such a way that a larger proportion of 

 the rising generation will elect a career 

 on the land. This does not mean that 

 undue pressure should be brought to bear 

 upon school children to make them become 

 agriculturists. It does not even necessi- 

 tate the definite teaching of agriculture 

 in the elementary schools. It means, in 

 the first place, that there must be much 

 more practical work in our elementary 

 schools, that more hours must be allotted 

 to manual instruction, and that our country 

 schools must be no longer town schools 

 situated in the country, but schools drawing 

 their inspiration from nature and from the 

 surrounding life. This is only another 

 way of saying that our education must be 

 full and generous. In the past it has been 

 too much a text-book education, which can 

 never be full and generous because it appeals 

 to one side of the child only, and badly to 

 that, and leaves the manual side entirely 

 untouched. In many parts of England the 

 movement towards manual instruction has 

 taken firm hold, but it requires speeding up. 

 It will be found that in those schools where 



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