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October 8, 1895
The Leader
Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi
What is this article about?
Article from Colman's Rural World urges practical agricultural training for farmers' sons to inherit and manage family farms, decrying impractical theoretical instructors who fail at real farming.
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The School for Farmers' Boys.
The school that the farmer should send his boys to, if he desires them to inherit his acres and keep his homestead, is where his boy can be taught agriculture pure and undefiled in all its branches, and the school that gives employment to teachers that have good practical, agricultural sense, instead of theoretical agricultural nonsense.
The great trouble in many schools where agricultural science is taught is that the teachers are not practical men. Too many of them if given a hundred acres of the best land in the state, fully equipped with live stock and farming utensils, could not run the business five years without putting a mortgage on the farm. Therein is where much of the trouble lies in the present day in the education of the farmer boy. Too much of it is of the kind that educates him off the farm instead of preparing him for his work. - Colman's Rural World.
The school that the farmer should send his boys to, if he desires them to inherit his acres and keep his homestead, is where his boy can be taught agriculture pure and undefiled in all its branches, and the school that gives employment to teachers that have good practical, agricultural sense, instead of theoretical agricultural nonsense.
The great trouble in many schools where agricultural science is taught is that the teachers are not practical men. Too many of them if given a hundred acres of the best land in the state, fully equipped with live stock and farming utensils, could not run the business five years without putting a mortgage on the farm. Therein is where much of the trouble lies in the present day in the education of the farmer boy. Too much of it is of the kind that educates him off the farm instead of preparing him for his work. - Colman's Rural World.
What sub-type of article is it?
Opinion Piece
Educational Advice
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Farmers Education
Practical Agriculture
Rural Schools
Theoretical Teaching
Story Details
Story Details
Advocacy for schools teaching practical agriculture to farmers' boys by experienced teachers, criticizing theoretical education that fails to prepare them for farm life and drives them away.