Show agriculture in rural schools vf take tho the following from the review I 1 much to our astonishment we WC hain that tho review Is accused of oi 01 posing the teaching of elementary agriculture in fit tho the public schools schoola oi lural i ural districts tho the review has stood for the training of children fo toi I 1 in the broadest bio adest sense and there fort has opposed any aad 0 every ery adu cau cali inal policy which would make the p I 1 ile he schools ileine specially any interest inhere t even though that it ii test lo bo 10 a public on one but in providing rn en education alon aloe lines of broad and generous culture lt it la Is indispensable able that the activities cf the school be closely correlates corre latec to those which are tun fun diment al ail in the cam community 0 fore agriculture should have if not first place at least a prominent place in the course of study for rural amiral pil in mary ry schools with more advanced int instruction ruction tn in the high schools in it is a question worthy of con whether high schools I 1 rural lural districts L hould not be chiefly schoola of w att iture supplying eap sap plying of couite lo 10 I 1 far as possible po the genet genei al aj culture needful to offset the nar lowing tendencies of technical train in ing at any rate there Is better rea s son on for agriculture in rural schools than thain for four deais of latin three eais of f ilgra algora one year of trigo no metry or anything at all it in corn com meichal arithmetic though noaa of these la Is without sonio sonia allue ballue whether lor jor practical life oi off for general cut cul ture there is better reason for special emphasis upon 1110 ir rural schools than for special em ph asis upon industrial training it ir manufacturing centers |