Agricultural Instruction In Secondary Schools

Excerpt from Development of Agricultural Instruction in Secondary Schools As a rule the normal schools have confined their efforts to training teachers of elementary agriculture, but in a few cases the department of agriculture in connection with normal schools have become ambi tious to compete with the agricultural colleges in training teachers for secondary schools. This has meant duplication of extensive farm and school equipment. In a few cases normal schools and agricul tural colleges have cooperated in the training of secondary teachers, the normal schools or school of education given the professional training and the agricultural colleges the technical training. 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.

Excerpt from The Teaching of Agriculture in the High School The rapid rise of agriculture as a subject of instruction in the secondary schools of the United States has brought with it many problems of an educational nature. The subject matter of general agriculture is very extensive, varying from the simplest nature study to the very difficult and complex original research studies along the frontiers of the science. There is little agreement among schoolmen and agriculturists as to what portions of this great subject should be taught in the secondary school, and to what degree of completeness such portions should be carried. This unsettled condition is nowhere better shown than in the material contained in the secondary textbooks of agriculture that have recently appeared, and the plans pursued by the several authors in the development of the subject. 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.