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Show - Farm Teaching in inSchool inSchool School Is FavoredAuthority Favored FavoredAuthority , . Authority Says Education Is Isfor Isfor for Good of Masses . i State i eo1eC8 ! e of A.zrlcut- A.zrlcut AZTICUI A.zrlcutturoWNU AZTICUIDr . - From - " Now Nowtura - York Servicee :01 01 : tura turo-WNU turo WNU . - irate Service ServiceDr . unlver univer- univer uulver university - Dr II It n . . M 1\1 1 \ Steward Stewnrd of Cornell Cornen book bookteaching bookteaching trend toward .deplored deplored the sity teaching . nnd and defended the old prIn- prIn prInciple principle - - doIng , , " " In InaddressIng Inaddressing ciple of "learnIng learnIng " to do by of ofthe ofthe 01the addressing the agricultural sectlon section sect on association association"I the Amcrlcin AmerIc'1n AmerIc1n Arnerican ' vocational enthusiastic about aboutsuch aboutsuch aboutsuch "I I " cannot become as pruning nn an nnapple anapple anapple such a school problem an apple appletree appletree without having apple tree appleSee tree To make mahe the problem difficult difficult.v difficultv . , adds no merit to toteaching toteaching toteaching V v'tgtie vtgtie ' 1gue < < i"ue iue " . , and nnd Indefinite the boy may learn le.lrn lelrn . about aboutprunln aboutpruning teaching ; learnbout bout prunln pruning boutpruning without having an appleto apple tree treeto treeto with extra effort efort effort.Real effortReal ! . . to prune , but only neal Real situations sltu'1t1ons sltu1t1ons ' ha have hate , e more influenceand Influence InfluenceIlnd Influenceand Ilnd and he beget et a better type of thInUng thlnhlng thinking , " he sass savs sas ; } He savsHe sasHe sassHe upholds npbolc1s the teaching of voca voca- vocational voca- voca vocational vocational - - tional agriculture , or special training trainingalthpugh , althpugh nlthpugh he agrees that education educationshould educationshould educationshould should be desl designed ncd for tlie the good of the themas themasses themasses masses mas es and not for Individuals to "out out "out- "outstrip "out- "out out "outstrip "outstrip " - - strip " their neighbors However , until untilsociety untilsociety untilsociety atti atti- aUl- aUl aUltude attitude attitude society taLcs tahcs takes a much different dUerent ! - tude on training lawyers , physicians physiciansdentists , , dentists , and other Individual "outstrippers "out- "out out "outstrIppers " "out-strlppers "out out strlppers " - - strIppers , " , " agriculture Is not yet doIng doinr doinrviolence doingviolence violence to that principle . . A high highschool highschool highschool school course In agriculture , properly properlyorganI1cd properlyorganized properlyorganized organI1cd organized , , . provides the best means or of orn ofa ofn n a general education possible poss1ble for many manyrural manyrural manyrural rural communities Agricultural train train- trainIng trainlag training - ing lag may be he called special , but the group groupot groupof groupof ot of agricultural vocations VQcations touch life at ate atet atevery themselves bet- bet better better bet better - e et , ery point and lend ter to human and nnd social Influences Influencesthan influencesthan Influencesthan than any nny similarly related group ot of otvoc'ltlons ofvocations ofvocations ofvocationsVocational voc'ltlons vocltlons vocations ' voc'ltlonsVocational vocationsVocational Vocational education eduLation has no quarrelwith quarrelwith quarrel quarrelwith with general gcneral education ; each has too toomuch toomuchl toomuch much muchl ' to offer otTer the other and the six sl'C- sl'C slC sic- sic sl'Cteen sicteen sixteen ' - teen years ' experience e\perlence e perlence " \ : of vocational vocationaltraining vocationaltraining vocationaltraining training has contributed much to the thegeneral thegeneral thageneral general education field , , he says . . ' If we begin with the general , as astie aswe tie \ ' e probably do , It remains barren and andfutile andfutile andfutile futile until , utilized It'1Uzed It1Uzed sit'tlized sittlized ' ' by special experi experI- expert- expert experIences expertences experiences - ences If It we begin with the specialas specIal , as we probably do not , we shall soon soondisco soondiscos soondiscover disco discos , er that the < he principles from whIch whIchfundamental whichfundamental whichfundamental fundamental values alues salues , of life Ufe arise , are arethe arethe arethe the same principles that other types typesof typesof typesof of special education come to recog recognize . nize nlze It Is then the business of voca voca- vocational voca- voca vocational vocational - - tional education to check perIodIcally periodicallyIts its fundamental purposes , points ot of otvIews ofviews ofviews vIews , methods , and results with gen gen- general gen- gen general general - - eral education , of which It Is an In- In Integral integral In Integral - tegral part , to find the common bases basesof basesof basesof of mutual help " _ 'r r ' . |