Agricultural Education in the Public Schools: A Study of Its Development with Particular Reference to the Agencies Concerned |
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Page 123 - State aid for general industrial schools, trade schools, and schools of agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking. — 1. The commissioner of education in the annual apportionment of the state school moneys shall apportion therefrom to each city and union free school district...
Page 58 - We cordially extend this invitation to all practical teachers in the North, the South, the East, and the West, who are willing to unite in a general effort to promote the...
Page 72 - Teaching agriculture is much more than teaching a conglomeration of physical and biological sciences. Educators are coming to see more and more clearly that agriculture is both a science and an art, and as a result, it is being taught in ways which are not strictly applicable to the teaching of the other sciences.* •Crosby, DJ : "Training Courses for Teachers of Agriculture.
Page 95 - prepare a plan for establishing the State Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, connecting with it the education of youth in the knowledge of that most important art.
Page 95 - ... upon for the information of youth > The improvement of agriculture being useful to all, and skill in it no disparagement to any.
Page 71 - American public school is the greatest factor in developing American citizenship that we possess, and its function in developing American citizenship is greater than teaching arithmetic, Latin, or trades. Social efficiency is much more needed just now than business efficiency. But alas, too many are thinking only of business acumen The one who argues for the establishment of a separate system of agricultural high schools or separate industrial high schools is wittingly or unwittingly an enemy to...
Page 68 - But the institution, being unendowed and on a private footing, labored under many embarrassments, especially in never having land enough to carry out and accomplish the ends of its founders. We did what we could to train the students in the analysis of soils, in the application of the mechanical powers to all farming operations, and took out our young men often into the field and country for practical surveying, geological excursions, road-making, and the labors of the farm ; but, not being able...
Page 110 - ... When it is considered that 94 out of every 100 children finish their education with the district school, and that the large majority of these do not continue beyond the sixth grade, it is important for the future of agriculture that opportunity be given for young people who live in the country and have left the public school, and from whose ranks the future farmers and their wives must be supplied, to be taught the latest and most improved methods for conducting agricultural operations. Hitherto...
Page 110 - In the dietary studies made in connection with the nutrition investigations of the Office of Experiment Stations of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 14 - ... experience of more advanced institutions. It can call attention from time to time to the relation of agricultural education to general education. It can survey the educational field and possibly point out dangers to be averted or weak places to be strengthened. It can, finally, discover things that need the doing and are not attended to by any other agency, and can see that some part of such lack is supplied. So much as this I hope the Bureau of Education may be able to do for our agricultural...