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Show H JEDUCATONAL REFORM i " "" H Tlic following quotation represents H, a growing sentiment among the H American people, land the schools will H need to be adjusted to the real need H of the people in order to satisfy this H demand. B "In the Independent for April 15, I H have outlined some of the -wonderful H work that is being done h.v some of H our Agricultural Collage. Dap and H upon it there is growing up n system M of education that will ultimately dii M pine a the popular iysUnv; industrial fl moml, uplifting and character-making H as well as body-making. It will enre H little for mere erudition, and very H soon, inrtend of shutting our litt'c M onrn in doors all day, and cramming B them with what other people hava H soon, we shall teach them to use their H eyas and ears, and then their own H hiuid$ as well as brains School will B lu&i mostly out of door', in gardens. m The most pilifu' sight I tnvc yet seen H is Ihcsc college boys, graduating aft.er M ten or twelve year of tudv. brain- fuddled full, but hands empty, and not knowing which way to turn. If such boys live on the community hereafter, as heretofore they have lived on their parents, who is to blame? Send your boys and girls' to the Agricultural Co'-legcs, Co'-legcs, and when they come back homo they will know what to do with their hands, and they will not be likely to be besoddened with cigarcts, coarse living, and ungenerous feelings." |