Abstract
STUDENTS of rural affairs have long realised that much dissatisfaction exists in country districts with our present system of education. In whatever way it is judged, according to its critics, it has failed; the children sent out from the country schools are not better fitted for work on the land than their fathers were; on the contrary, they are kept at desk work during the period when it is supposed that their receptive faculties are at the best, and when they would, on the land, most rapidly learn the ways of animals, of plants, and of soils. Even the friends of the system will concede that it has been evolved without any special regard for country requirements, and without taking account of the fundamental differences in habits of thought and in points of view between the dwellers in the town and those in the country.
The Teaching of Agriculture in the High School.
By Garland A. Bricker. Pp. xxv + 202. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 4s. 6d. net.
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R., E. The Teaching of Agriculture in the High School . Nature 88, 70 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088070a0
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