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Show f f p EDUCATION THAT B lb USEFUL H Eery farmer knows thnt our schools aro not M practical. Every farmer's wife knows that her m daughter gets very lttlo out of tho rural school B that really mnkes her any better wlfo or mother, H or better fits her fcr the task of mhklng a living. H And yet It Is safe to wager that a lnrgo proportion of us, If tho mntter were presented to us of mnklng tho schools more practical would ct'Ject to the HJ change. -i H We need vocational education. That Is, our M education should bo changed to n system which will H make tho schools Into workshops. Children need H to bo taught to work. They need to he tnught to H think about work, to write about work, to talk t- tin! recite about work, nnd to flgire work out. V Hy work, I mean things that concern our vo- H cation in life. And by vocational education, 1 do H not mean that tho school district ought to say, B "Now this is n farmer's daughter! She must be HI educated for a farmer's wife, and for nothing elsot" HI ly no means. Hut I do sny that the school until- H o:itles should say, "These aro farmers' children. H They must bo educated. True educhtlon Is obtn'n- B til by the study of things, not hooks. What things Hff bhull these farmorB children study? Why, natural- B ly tlie things of their surroundings the things thnt Hj ' hdr parents, and tholr neighbors, and their play. V mates have to bandlo and work with hnd under- H' eland. Cows! Horses! Soils! Crops! Peats! Mnch- Hi Inery! Farm questional These are the things for H tliem to study, becauso they are already Interested H In them. They will bo nil tho better farmers and H firmors' wives for It, but even It they don't become V formers, they will be smarter people wherever the) B live and whatever they do, because they havo been H educated !n an atmosphere of studying things rath- H cr than books " -Farm and Fireside K Hfli1 .LVasvasvBBi |