Education 



agricultural side. Again, in the case of the 

 Poor Law children, influence could be quite 

 fairly brought to bear upon them to go in 

 for the career of greatest use to the Nation 

 and to the Empire. They are brought up 

 entirely at State expense, and all told there 

 are some 234,000 of them. In Austria 

 there are 34,000 Poor Law children. These 

 are all boarded out in carefully selected 

 houses in carefully chosen villages, and with 

 hardly an exception all these children 

 eventually become cultivators of the soil. 

 The time has come for us to realize that 

 the type of citizen and his characteristics can 

 be moulded by education. We should con- 

 sider what type of citizen is most needed by 

 the Nation and the Empire, and then set 

 about so to revise our system of education 

 that this type may be produced. 



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