10 SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENING 



The school garden is something that the child can see and 

 enter into fully ; so it interests him and makes him love school 

 more. — L. C. 



School gardening is necessary in that it teaches a child to 

 know something of the economy of space and respect for 

 individual ownership. — M. G. T. 



A school garden helps to quicken interest in most of the 

 other subjects, and gives the children practical information 

 on everyday things. — S. P. C. 



School gardens are of real practical value in training for 

 life.— B. E. K. 



It awakens the interest of the children, and thereby they 

 gain much useful knowledge, and in addition learn to observe 

 closely. — M. J. E. 



School gardening should be so conducted that practical 

 knowledge and experience are gained, crops of real worth and 

 best quality raised, and each child stimulated to go out into 

 the world and do likewise. 



School gardening should be so taught that each child feels 

 the wonder yet the perfect naturalness of life in all its phases ; 

 in plants and men alike. 



In rural communities the garden work should teach best 

 methods and the underlying principles ; it should interest the 

 child to stay on the, farm. In the cities children should be 

 taught the money possibilities of a small plot of ground, — ^the 

 practical side is to be developed as well as the ideal and the 

 spiritual. — C. M. 



The home garden should be the result of every school 

 garden. — M. 



