Show BACK TO THE FARM to L XII rural education secondary schools my C gragory copyright 1310 1910 by american press asso u lation lat lon N the past the 07 per cent of the IN rural boy lad eiria girls who sever never f attended scarcely arcely ec reech 41 their sa abafo or of attention the colidge bollt se has been developing devel opla lead ers but the rank and lie ole have bom neglected oal recently baa has the need of industrial education for the gaoat mass of the people teen recognized now ow that the necessity ie in seen ate steps ps are being taken to meet it IL it waa wa thOL 1111 ln at firm first that the country bo boy could obtain nil till the education ne no need ed in a da elt III leilh h school that idea Is fast bein outgrown out crown the city high school was nut riot created to meet the ueda t u eda eds ui of the country boy and it con bains little that appeal appeals to mm bim kgb 1 k 41 4 0 9 bt ak al x ICK MARINO AT A CS SCHOOL school hate too lo 10 nr or d their course 4 ot paudy r the 3 per et nt at of their who III go to college ignoring Ign the atras of t the e other OT 07 per cent hard an no this getem on the boy in town it waa was harder barder mill on the country boy there wits tio thing in tte lilyh pibool u conme that war as con coil necked even remotely renio tely with ith bi 4 life on the farm most of tile his titue time nua aas ghen to latin german etl inith a little mucie and art thrown in to the were a belli help in lit deelo develop plug luK hn hi mind and anti teach 1 ing film to think luf the I 1 atin und and et haq o 0 of little alue except to the 3 per tent cent who expected to vitter l anter cot lege 1 abe 1 I probably ani ai cheil by a it teacher who vulan I 1 t eing slug half hall eo so well weil tia the ain adu lark larks nt at home houie and the art b one feliu hu couldn coulden t draw alov a tow or on it pa 1 lotare to pvc it life abt diat part of the bleb school froin ibe the farm boi s standpoint Kland point wn was the attitude towi itil nork orl in and farm flork ork lu a rhe boy boys and girla win rc encouraged to prepare for clett in order that they inight att tt lift etiore twill alp they tre nut not told so in aird I 1 artif I 1 ten bir talk d of the tb bartu 04 it okd 1 p te ce it to come fruci ruin per halm but the idia that forming ns not it north orth bt lery very thing in lit eitard ur or learned d froin from tho farm farin und toward the lt it sot of only nty as he the farm form boa bo dented etuy atio ledge of the furni form but he waa wa to see th the bright aide of 0 1 t ry othi r calling and the tb dark side ide of lih hl imn on it nas little nonder bat that bv lit left be the farm nt tit the end of bli tits high st hool course the th hesli are coming to pay inath antl more respect to the 07 percent of their pupils they are the i f the chrit the edica blui ed a DO bo s nanis mahout lutai ing hi earning tj t in u fillar cournia in carli carpentry eutry op bork ani inic i anre been pt gmt in lit ilie whole attitude of the elligh Is chan chat rinK and inore more at U nilon 14 im 1 ins ini bild to preparing pre stu dauts for life than to paring them for college 11 the are being that it 1 an I 1 othor to nork ork with heir their bund tion flit the aarn arr are twang 11 tai Klit donie science nutt home wo eco cornic in fl t the bagh ball een en its opportunity ind bi 1 grus grasping pIng it in all thim the countr boy nits leen wen alft it ft out the arroo ih rp of the high conal Is atut vf of the att fe CIA tune ti teach and sonie hae liae eue sue 4 bwll it hust 1 become plain however a achal icat off it blaik ol 01 tend land in the beart heart of f a eft elt cannot colw 1 to h I 1 it tin the prentest 0 of deess jtb that lion tion hair come the he almi ti hi riol h such soch ft hool are all toi tot ft fe w h yet but their numbers 4 are in er rapidly a as the tile demand foi for them St rox ate supported bt bv OW tt mime pomp by the ante anti 1 11 some of the dekom and rat schoon have been very ir asri agri has eleven district ceoila ch oila that are doing doln a it irrean work in educating the rank end and flip ISIP nf the future barme farmers of UK state minnesota and nebraska ha bihorn of agriculture in connection with nith their agricultural colleges these are doing good work but they are only a small 11 proportion ot of the farm boys and girls one khuol to a state Is 1 not enough the ideal secondary Is located away from the beart of the city it t a liberal alece of land la in connection with it IL to be successful it mast must lie be murro undid by enough of a farm to gire 1 it st rural flavor As a rule thero the ro secondary schoon 1 are dolus doing their work well veil they have nith mth it asir 4 lit tit out the classics aud and the dead s I 1 lluy have substituted that help to fit the boys a and nd girl rr life on the farin farm A laree large hitre of the study of books Is 1 done auna aw a with nith and the study ot of living things substituted the schools are well lit equipped with laboratories the student works ath with corn coring scoring placing trIng and testing judging corn Is as fascinating a game as ever a boy mitt enga tRed geil in even more interesting Inte renting Is 13 the stock judging few rew of the schools can aford to keep a it complete line of live sto stok but neighboring nelph boria farmers are always rend to apply the deficiency clency then there are the machinery labora laboratories cherp the boys learn some of the simpler glin principles of mechanics as applied to farni machinery it puts a it boy on ou his huettle to be turned loose on A pile of castings and told to put them together to torra form a 4 binder the of a gasoline engine beep keep him working otter after houra houm the study of the growth of plants takes tho the place of the study of classified troland the boy learn leams tho name of the different weeds and how bow to tell their seed apart apt teams their habits and the best bt ways of combating them he makeni a collection of insects and learns which ones arp are harmful and which innocent he ile Is dealing with ith life the kind of life that h he tins known ever since be he was ild to know anything at last he Is 1 learning the answers to that big why that tine has bothered him ear eluce luce ho lie could walk lie ile has found the that Is tilted to his mods and anti his tits inclinations it is an education in lit the ways of nature rather than in the ways of man it Is an that Is fitting him to live beet best the life that he knows most about he ife may not care much about col cot lege ills mind may falter faltor at tit geo apropo propositions altion 4 and quadratic equations flu he lie con understand the of soil moll fertility and crop rotation HP lie can work out the equa ton tion of profit anil and 1 ioa in lit calves thu the greatest Kren test million of any form of education in to tench people how to alre not or only ennst it tench teach them how to tie the welt veil but it t will be RUCCO directly in tit proportion to the number it benebe 4 the professional colley t have find it tu enomia IK ta them delves with severe re 4 in lit order that ti pofi Ms loii not bacomo 0 er brondt d 1 alth ith agricultural education there 1 li no such uch fear ahe danger 1 14 not in too murli the problem Is to get enough dars education hall ha bet ben n plit because it tracel 4 people aple the thines things they want to know they do nut not take such edu cation on the geo erril theor that it Is rood good for them they can see for hit thit it Is 1 rood good they can ao mee it in the increased torn orn arld grown by the boys m hu ho hatte W 1 11 graduated from such rt sendol to thi tit farm they rhey can see it from the tin stock bolat ut takes the place of or the bon boici with nith which he lie owe OIK mould hav hare ben been fIed athly niu cati ic tv it in the pride with which he fie ketly up vip bl bia fences fence A and vardi rhe giri irl Is plen glien almost ns US larse large n elitc pi it in lit the tin thy the boy me I 1 Is taught Klit tin the art tint tind I 1 the s atnee it nee of homemaking she get a I 1 MILK IN A laboratory lutr and unit atter iatter i ailt lw of life tin tilt would be b in a 0 city I alii i beij a it grant r C icene of it its cespon 4 and it fuller appreciation ui ur its it 1 I I 1 fit II 11 the it hr of the th ucris kho in 1 to tt the bt bo tu to ring lurre umed brout ml it and tic the arl to noe kt these th pronta in building up a better home bome its function 11 not and nd there flie 11 cult cultural side if f he the 4 blui 1 nut not I 1 lie if 1 Is 14 4 kiren given tit 1 l for KII im of his hn native tongue nud atud an all ability to UK it well nell tire ir to a farber who would be limited he ile lit alren g lm of history fur for cot c audr enn plop broaden rort len and 1 deepen the pratum of liti nian thought thouis ht lil history tory HP ile Is pt gl lau en I 1 ppe aking 1 a and learo learns to 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