The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . and studied. Many findtime to make their grounds beautiful, test all seed corn forthe district, bud all the peach trees required to plant theorchards of the whole countryside, grow corn and vegetablesfor the annual contests, and still have an abundance oftime for the other school tasks. The School Laboratory and Informal Instruction in Agri-culture. — The statements in the last paragraph are basedon the premise that the school is part of a great agriculturelaboratory, or, b
The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . and studied. Many findtime to make their grounds beautiful, test all seed corn forthe district, bud all the peach trees required to plant theorchards of the whole countryside, grow corn and vegetablesfor the annual contests, and still have an abundance oftime for the other school tasks. The School Laboratory and Informal Instruction in Agri-culture. — The statements in the last paragraph are basedon the premise that the school is part of a great agriculturelaboratory, or, better still, nature laboratory. This in-cludes large school grounds, ample for play, with room forflower beds, shrubbery and trees, a common experimentplot and garden with individual plots for all the , for any reason, such as short school year and difficultyof caring for it during the summer vacation, a school gardenshould prove impracticable, a home garden may be madeto answer the purpose. In any case the instruction must be informal. There isno real objection to using a textbook as a manual, but mere. New Educational Activities in Rural High Schools Horse judging, class of agriculture at tlie Rollo. Illinois, consolidated school; andmilk testing in a smaller rural high school in the Middle West. ENVIRONMENT THE BACKGROUND OF CURRICULUM 267 textbook courses in agriculture are proving futile and shouldbe discouraged. Indeed, it is just as practical to teachchemistry and physics from books alone as to teach a loveand understanding of nature and its wonder works fromwithin the covers of textbooks. Agriculture Teaching in the Schools of Ontario. — Agri-culture as a school subject is usually quite well organized inthe better consolidated schools. In the one-teacher schoolslittle has been accomplished. This is because we still lackteachers of peculiar preparation for their work; becausethe school year is poorly planned; and because agricultureis seldom considered as
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