. Among School Gardens . Macdonald College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue. School GardenON the Group Plan teachers in domestic science and household art,and on the other with the betterment of ruralhome conditions through improvement of theschool life and modification of the curriculum tomeet the needs of rural districts. As a vitalfactor bearing upon the life of the community,and as pedagogically sound, it introduced in addi- 14 THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN. tion to manual training, the school garden, whoseinfluence and worth had already been demon-strated at Toronto in the Broadview Gardens at
. Among School Gardens . Macdonald College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue. School GardenON the Group Plan teachers in domestic science and household art,and on the other with the betterment of ruralhome conditions through improvement of theschool life and modification of the curriculum tomeet the needs of rural districts. As a vitalfactor bearing upon the life of the community,and as pedagogically sound, it introduced in addi- 14 THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN. tion to manual training, the school garden, whoseinfluence and worth had already been demon-strated at Toronto in the Broadview Gardens at-tached to the Boys Brigade institute,* and on alarger scale by Dr. Mac-Kay, superintendent ofeducation in the NovaScotia schools. As earlyas 1904, Nova Scotia hadsome 79 gardens, and themaritime provinces havesent the greater numberof teachers to MacdonaldInstitute for the springand summer courses. The Macdonald schoolgardens put in the back-ground European ideasof utility, whether eco-nomic or as preliminary to a scientific studyof agriculture. Insisting that nearly all such * This Institute, under Captain Atkinson, is a self-governing club,carrying on evening classes; two joint stock corporations (one dealingin honey, one in maple syrup); and a garden on a township plan ofcontrol. The boys pay for their garden privilege. They make whatthey can from their produce, even being allowed to speculate byhiring some of their fellow farmers to work for th
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