Secondary Schools 



more definite land basis than they do at 

 present in the majority of these schools. If 

 they learn science at all, it should be the 

 science that will be of practical use to them. 

 They generally leave school at sixteen, and 

 the smattering of abstract science they get is 

 of no use. They want the science of living 

 things and organic chemistry. Properly 

 taught, this will so interest them, that they 

 will find means for staying on at school 

 somewhat longer. Several grammar schools 

 in the country are doing excellent work in 

 this direction, and that this type of instruc- 

 tion is appreciated is proved by a large 

 increase in the number of scholars since its 

 introduction. If with a better curriculum 

 in the secondary ^ schools more farmers' sons 

 are induced to attend them, more will con- 

 sequently go on to the agricultural college, 

 and this will all help to raise the standard 

 of agriculture. But the immediate necessity 

 is for a great development of intermediary 

 instruction by means of the County Council's 

 organizing instructors and the peripatetic 



^ Vide Report of the Consultative Committee of the 

 Board of Education, CD. No. 6849. 



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