Manual For High Schools With Special Reference To Science And Agriculture

Author : Josiah Main
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333565473
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book A Manual for High Schools written by Josiah Main and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Manual for High Schools: With Special Reference to Science and Agriculture The ultii-nate aim of agricultural education has not always: been clearly defined. To many of its strongest advocates and the industrial masses generally it means greater e-h'icie-nev in the work by which they maintain then-i-se-lve's and their families, and an alleviation of hardships. P-ra-iseworthy though these motives may be, to the writer it means much more as an educational reform than it does as an industrial reform simply, a statement of Reasons for which belief would be argumentative and are therefore omitted. But that belief explains the point of view and for that. Reason is 'i-nent'ioned. As an educational reform its origin is the universities and its destination the high school in which many of the in uential citizens of the future are to get their final training and the rural schools of which none are too humble. Or too poor to have the bene 'fit. And as the only practicable route by which the. Rural schools may get the benefits of the reform is by way of the high school of which every county is destined to have one or 1n-0're, ltlie high school should 'be made the rural teachers' training sch-001. The high school should there fore send its students in three directions - to active life. To the college, and to the rural school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."